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Jane Fonda joined by more than 550 stars as she relaunches McCarthy-era free speech committee

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded by her father Henry Fonda in the late 1940s, in order to protect free speech from government censorship. This comes in the wake of Jimmy Kimmel's suspension under pressure from the Trump administration.

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Democrats liken Trump to Putin after call to use US cities for military training

Illinois governor JB Pritzker and others condemn president for suggesting cities be used as military training grounds

The Guardian - US

Jane Fonda relaunches free speech group backed by her father during the McCarthy era

In wake of the Trump administration’s censorship threats, the actor re-established the Committee for the First Amendment with A-list support

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McCarthyism’s shadow looms over controversial firing of Texas professor who taught about gender identity

Texas AM University announced the resignation of its president, Mark A. Welsh III, on Sept. 18, 2025, following a controversial decision earlier in the month to fire a professor over a classroom exchange with a student about gender identity.

The Conversation

History teaches us that authoritarians use any excuse to seize power

Nazis used the 1933 Reichstag blaze to justify snuffing out civil liberties. In the US, the calls for a crackdown have already begun

The Guardian - US

Political witch hunts and blacklists: Donald Trump and the new era of McCarthyism

A modern-day political inquisition is unfolding in “digital town squares” across the United States. The slain far-right activist Charlie Kirk has become a focal point for a coordinated campaign of silencing critics that chillingly echoes one of the darkest chapters in American history.

The Conversation

Um, Laura Loomer says ‘Joseph McCarthy was right’ and ‘we need to make McCarthy great again’

Laura Loomer wants to "make McCarthy great again."

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I’m no fan of Elon Musk. But Trump’s threat to deport him is sickening

The president said he would ‘take a look’ at deporting the US citizen amid a political feud, as Republicans make similar remarks about Zohran Mamdani

The Guardian - US

McCarthyism, Past—and Present?

Clay Risen's Red Scare book wrongly frames it as an exclusively conservative hysteria.

Reason

Murrow vs. McCarthy, again

Good Night, and Good Luck goes live as Murrow’s takedown of political fear feels timely again

Salon

Amid New McCarthyism, the Alliance for Texas History Embraces Diverse Scholarship

“It’s particularly important at a moment when our state leaders have demonstrated that they don't want students to have a really full, inclusive accounting of our state or national past.”

Texas Observer

Did Bill Buckley Really Lead a Successful Revolution?

You can hear echoes of Buckley's early career in more than one MAGA crusader's rhetoric today. That's not a sign of a man who won.

Reason

Dem Senators Slam Marco Rubio Over Alignment With Trump: 'I Regret Voting For You For Secretary Of State'

Democratic senators expressed disappointment at Marco Rubio's alignment with the Trump administration and said they regret voting to confirm him to his post

Latin Times

This land is their land: Trump is selling out the US’s beloved wilderness

During the McCarthy era’s darkest days, public lands came under attack. History now repeats itself – and this may be the last chance to defend what’s ours

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‘The universities are the enemy’: why the right detests the American campus

For centuries, the academy was exclusive to the Christian elite. When that began to change, an onslaught began

The Independent UK

Trump is desperate to brand his opponents as communists. But why?

A 'Red Scare'-era figure influenced a young Trump

The Conversation

From the Chinese Exclusion Act to pro-Palestinian activists: The evolution of politically motivated deportations

The recent deportation orders targeting foreign students in the U.S. have prompted a heated debate about the legality of these actions. The Trump administration made no secret that many individuals were facing removal because of their pro-Palestinian advocacy.

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Rubio grants GOP wishes to kill US power

The GOP has tried to take down the State Department for decades

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Good Night, and Good Luck: why AP’s battle for press freedom echoes the theme of George Clooney’s new play

George Clooney’s role as a veteran TV reporter in the play Good Night, and Good Luck has received general acclaim after the play opened on Broadway last week. A New York Times review proclaimed that it “makes Edward Murrow a saint of sane journalism for a world that still needs…

The Guardian - US

Good Night, and Good Luck review – George Clooney’s Broadway debut never quite lands

The actor-director brings his 2005 drama to the stage, now playing the lead role, but while it’s timely and nicely staged, it feels stiff

The Guardian - US

‘Have you no sense of decency, sir?’ Joe McCarthy and the road to Trump

Red Scare author Clay Risen sees parallels between 1950s witch-hunts and the right’s assault on government today

The Guardian - UK

Just like McCarthy, Trump spreads fear everywhere before picking off his targets

Arrests, blacklists and deportations are chilling reminders of the red scare that transformed America

The Independent UK

‘I assume I’ll be driven out the country’: Workers fear Trump is leading a purge of LGBTQ+ federal employees

LBGTQ+ federal workers say they are under a cloud of suspicion and uncertainty as the Trump administration purges trans people and DEI from federal government. Josh Marcus reports

Salon

Under Trump, military faces a crisis

This won't be the first time politics has endangered our professional military. What can we learn from the past?

The Guardian - UK

McCarthyism stalked my family. Its paranoia contains a lesson for Trump’s second term

Trump’s eerily familiar evocations of the ‘enemy within’ may be harder to shake off than the man who targeted my parents, says Richard Sennett, chair of the London Centre for the Humanities

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