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How Donald Trump Echoes Joe McCarthy

Vanity Fair
My grandfather was jailed in the Red Scare of the 1950s. Political writers could suffer a similar fate in a second Trump term.
3 months ago

Column: Paine-ful times in the U.S.

The Morning Sun
Some Mountie Town history: Way back there in seminary school … well, actually Sacred Heart … I was invited to join a friend's family to...
2 months ago

The Unapologetic Politics of Howard Fast

Literary Hub
In 1950, Joseph McCarthy tried to silence Howard Fast. It was a fool's errand. Called to testify before the House Un-American Activities...
58 months ago

Howard Fast

The Guardian
The writer Howard Fast, who has died aged 88, was the last surviving American recipient of the Stalin peace prize.
258 months ago

How Stanley Kubrick’s Spartacus Broke the Hollywood Blacklists

Jacobin
Telling the story of a slave revolt in ancient Rome, the 1960 film Spartacus was penned by two blacklisted Communist writers.
12 months ago

Before Black, queer artists were mainstream, there was Qaadir Howard

Fast Company
The YouTuber has always been ahead of his time. But he's ready to claim his rightful spot in music—with his new album 'The Queens Manifest:...
38 months ago

Remembering the Peekskill riots of 1949

Times Union
A concert led by singer and actor Paul Robeson with Pete Seeger in support devolved into chaos when a racist mob attacked the show.
13 months ago

Leslie Burr Howard, Fast and Fearless

The Plaid Horse
Leslie Burr Howard is a two-time Olympic medalist, winner of the FEI World Cup Finals, Rider of the Year, and American Horse Show Association's Equestrian of...
61 months ago

How Kirk Douglas helped break the Hollywood blacklist

BBC
The actor, who died on Wednesday aged 103, won't just be remembered for his acting.
56 months ago

Julius Fast, 89, Writer of Both Fact and Fiction, Is Dead (Published 2008)

The New York Times
Mr. Fast won the first Edgar Award given by the Mystery Writers of America and went on to publish popular books on body language,...
189 months ago