Nearly seven decades after it was discredited, McCarthyism is back in the United States with a bigger and more ambitious agenda. The original version to oust “commies” and “traitors,” named after Republican politician Joseph McCarthy, took America by storm during the first Cold War. From February 1950 to December 1954, the redneck first-term senator was […]
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The cost of friendship with China
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