Communism

In 1966, Congress enacted the Cuban Adjustment Act (CAA). This granted Cuban citizens permanent resident status when entering the United States. It exempted them from immigrant quotas and certain inadmissibility grounds.

After World War I, a “red scare” gripped the United States. One reflection of this climate of hysteria was in the “Palmer raids” on radicals. Striking without warning and without warrants, Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer’s men smashed union offices and the headquarters of Communist and…

Alien and Sedition Acts

In 1798, the Federalist-controlled Congress passed four acts to empower the president of the United States to expel dangerous Aliens from the country; to give the president authority to arrest, detain, and deport resident aliens hailing from enemy countries…

The climate of repression established in the name of wartime security during World War I continued after the war as the U.S. government focused on communists, Bolsheviks, and “reds.” The Red Scare reached its height in the years between 1919 and 1921. Encouraged by Congress, which had refused to…

<p><span class="deck"> In 1919 the U.S. Attorney General swooped down on a alleged Bolshevik revolutionaries and deported them by the boatload. For a while he was a national hero; he dreamed of the White House. But then…</span> </p>

<p>As general secretary of the Communist Party of the U.S., Browder was routinely attacked by politicians and thought to be a genuine threat to the nation.</p>

<p><span class="deck">Paul Robeson was giving a concert. It ended in a riot that foreshadowed the McCarthy era of the 1950’s</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> Was the Cuban leader always a Marxist or did the United States impel him in that direction? A distinguished historian of Cuban affairs examines the critical years when the Castro revolution became a communist dictatorship.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">It took place in 1948, and it was orchestrated, with difficulty, by the program director of a faltering Portland, Oregon radio station. He persuaded two Republican candidates to argue formally about an actual issue, with no moderator.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1932, the Communist International paid to send a cast of American blacks to Moscow to make a movie about American racial injustice. The scheme backfired.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">In the twilight of Castro’s regime, one of the soldiers who put him in power recalls what it was like to be a<em> <span class="typestyle"> fidelista</span></em> up in the hills four decades ago when a whole new, just, democratic world was there for the building.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">The Russians claim they want to be more like us, but do they have any idea who we are?</span></p>

<p>Miscalculations and blunders by world leaders precipitated the Korean War 60 years ago.</p>