Red Scare

PHOTOS: Blacklisted New York Photographers

The Huffington Post | Christopher Mathias | Posted 03.27.2012

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In 1936, a group of left-leaning, politically radical photographers in New York-- many of whom were Jewish, first-generation Americans-- formed The Ph...

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Islamophobia Network Targets Top Performing American Schools

Michael Shank | Posted 11.26.2011

While I recognize that there are legitimate concerns regarding the use of public funds for these charter schools... it seems that at the heart of this is an undercurrent of phobia about Islamic teaching in America.

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Tea Party Republican Governors Embrace Socialism

Bob Cesca | Posted 10.31.2011

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While federal government involvement in disaster relief is now and always a critical function of the federal government, I can't help but to ask Chris Christie and the others: If you're seriously opposed to government interference in state matters, can we have it back, please?

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Stage Door: Personal Enemy, Lombardi

Fern Siegel | Posted 05.25.2011

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59E59 Theaters' Personal Enemy, set in the Red Scare of the 1950s, is a mess. It's an important subject, but the writing is stilted and the plot transitions awkward.

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Howard Zinn's Unwholesome Influence

Sean Paige | Posted 05.25.2011

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The really damning element of the Zinn saga isn't that he wrote books, but that these became textbooks, which were warmly and uncritically received by the public school establishment.

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Exposing Glenn Beck as a Dangerous Fraud, Part 2

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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Beck owes it to his audience to "step out of character" and admit, on his show, that he's staging an elaborate hoax. His hero Orson Welles did it, and so can he.

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Guest Blog: McCarthyism and Climate Change

Giles Slade | Posted 05.25.2011

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Climate change denialists adopt bold new tactics; intimidation, cyber-bullying, break-ins and incidents of industrial espionage.

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Exorcising America's Diplomatic Demons

Robert Scheer | Posted 05.25.2011

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What we need is for Obama to pull a Nixon and attempt to cut a deal with Tehran as well as with competing forces in Afghanistan that meets their nationalist aspirations and our security interests.

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg Documents Radio/TV Diva Gertrude Berg Popular from Great Depression Through McCarthy Era

Penelope Andrew | Posted 05.25.2011

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Yoo Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg underscores a unique moment in our history when the Jewish experience crossed over into households composed of African Americans and Midwesterners, as they all listened to The Rise of the Goldbergs.

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Learning From History On Health Care Reform

Sahil Kapur | Posted 05.25.2011

The most transformative health care overhauls that succeeded in the last century employed the same strategy: build on what we've got and let the changes happen organically.

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The Wingnut Revolution

Bob Cesca | Posted 05.25.2011

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What the far-right appears to suggest is that ideas that are supported by 82% of Americans are criminal acts of tyranny, and an eventual tax increase of pennies on the dollar for the wealthiest 2% is worthy of opposition by revolutionary means.

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Finally, Health Insurance 90 Years Late

Paul A. London | Posted 05.25.2011

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Americans do not understand how close the country came to having universal health insurance nine decades ago or why it failed.

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