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The Red Scare Is American Past and Present

Benjamin Balthaser Convergence
If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism.

This Week in People’s History, Oct 22–28, 2025

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Magazine advertisement for DDT spray
DuPont Has DDT to Sell, So Watch Out! (1945), Women Want the Vote, Men Say No Way (1915), Icelandic Women Go on Strike Against Gender Discrimination (1975), Big Tobacco Kills, and Keeps on Killing (1940), Happy Birthday, Mike Doonesbury! (1970)