Many historians date the (Second) Red Scare to 75 years ago this year. On Feb. 9, 1950, Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy made his first anti-communist speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, now often known as the “Enemies From Within” speech. Days before, on Jan. 26, Rep. Richard M. Nixon had reported to the House on “The […]

Few TV offerings are trickier than what screenwriters call a “puzzle box” in its second season. Free of the inaugural run’s expository constraints, such a program can map exciting new territory but risks losing sight of its native shores. Characters once consigned to the background can step forward, but whether audiences will like them is […]

If the word “union” conjures up an image of a man in a hard hat reporting for duty to an assembly line, your understanding of how organized labor has evolved over the past 50 years is a little out of date. The typical union worker today, according to the latest report from the Bureau of […]

The Democratic Party and its allies in news media and the executive branch of the federal government are celebrating the White House Office of Management and Budget rescinding a memorandum intended to align federal spending with President Donald Trump’s executive orders. But the celebrations are likely to prove short-lived. Trump’s effort to halt federal spending […]