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ACTION! 🎬

Jane Fonda Gives Trump His Biggest Hollywood Wish

The two-time Oscar winner is imagining a world directed by Trump.

Owen Mason-Hill

Laura Loomer.
NO SENSE OF DECENCY

Loomer Proudly Styles Herself as MAGA’s Joseph McCarthy

Donald Trump’s ever-ready attack dog sees herself as a natural heir to one of the darkest chapters in modern U.S. history.

Will Neal

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‘MAKE MCCARTHY GREAT AGAIN’

Laura Loomer Wants to Bring Back the Red Scare

The MAGA influencer, who has the president’s ear, believes that anti-communist crusader Joseph McCarthy was “right.”

Josh Fiallo

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SPOILER ALERT!

The Steamy ‘Fellow Travelers’ Passion Meets the Vietnam War

In Episode 6, the central couple reunite in the late ’60s, when one is an anti-war activist on the lam and the other has a wife tired of playing second fiddle to a man.

Coleman Spilde

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HISTORY

‘Fellow Travelers’ Gives Matt Bomer His Emmy Reel Moment

In Episode 2 of “Fellow Travelers,” the devastating ramifications of the Lavender Scare come to surface, while the (now buzzy) hot sex takes a back seat.

Coleman Spilde

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GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALS

The Insane Saga of the Only Film to Be Blacklisted

“One of the reasons we made ‘Salt of the Earth’ after we were blacklisted was to commit a crime worthy of the punishment,” producer and screenwriter Paul Jarrico said.

Allison McNearney

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LEARNING FROM THE PAST

How Joseph McCarthy’s Witch-Hunt Echoes GOP’s Trump Worship

The new PBS documentary “McCarthy,” airing tonight, draws eerie parallels between the senator’s anti-communist witch-hunt and our 45th president.

Lloyd Grove

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DUBIOUS BATTLE

Did Novelist John Steinbeck Spy for the CIA in Paris?

During the same summer that he wrote “The Amiable Fleas,” now published in English for the first time, the American author also appears to have been gathering intel for the Agency.

Christopher Dickey

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Умница

The ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the Soviets

The only training she ever got as a spy was from her lover. But Elizabeth Bentley managed to manipulate the most feared secret police agency in the world—and intimidate the FBI.

Christopher Dickey

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Tough Guy

A Hardboiled Snub for J. Edgar Hoover

The long-time head of the FBI take not take insults well, and most people were too intimidated to try. But the creator of Philip Marlowe was made of tougher stuff.

Ron Capshaw

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Walking In Fear

Russia Probe as World-Historical Rerun?

“The line between investigating and persecuting is a very fine one… We must remember that accusation is not proof.”

John Batchelor

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