ACTION! 🎬Jane Fonda Gives Trump His Biggest Hollywood WishThe two-time Oscar winner is imagining a world directed by Trump.Owen Mason-Hill
NO SENSE OF DECENCYLoomer Proudly Styles Herself as MAGA’s Joseph McCarthyDonald 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
‘MAKE MCCARTHY GREAT AGAIN’Laura Loomer Wants to Bring Back the Red ScareThe MAGA influencer, who has the president’s ear, believes that anti-communist crusader Joseph McCarthy was “right.”Josh Fiallo
SPOILER ALERT!The Steamy ‘Fellow Travelers’ Passion Meets the Vietnam WarIn 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
HISTORY‘Fellow Travelers’ Gives Matt Bomer His Emmy Reel MomentIn 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
GREAT AMERICAN SCANDALSThe 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
LEARNING FROM THE PASTHow Joseph McCarthy’s Witch-Hunt Echoes GOP’s Trump WorshipThe new PBS documentary “McCarthy,” airing tonight, draws eerie parallels between the senator’s anti-communist witch-hunt and our 45th president.Lloyd Grove
DUBIOUS BATTLEDid 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
УмницаThe ‘Red Spy Queen’ Who Shocked America—and the SovietsThe 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
Tough GuyA Hardboiled Snub for J. Edgar HooverThe 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
Walking In FearRussia 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