He was 25, an honor graduate of Johns Hopkins University and a graduate cum laude of Harvard Law School, where he had been a favorite student of Professor Felix Frankfurter. The year was 1929, and he ...

Fifty-eight years ago Sunday, Alger Hiss -- the defendant in an emblematic Cold War prosecution once called "the trial of the century" -- began serving a federal prison sentence for perjury. Until his ...

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On this episode of Start Making Sense, historian Beverly Gage compares Trump’s attacks on universities with those of the McCarthy Era, and Jeff Kisseloff argues that Whittaker Chambers lied about a ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. On Oct. 29 The New York Times reported that Gen. Dmitri Volkogonov, in ...

As Alger Hiss walked out of the Lewisburg (Pa.) federal penitentiary in December 1954—on parole after serving 44 months of a five-year sentence for perjury —he carried under his arm a package wrapped ...

Alger Hiss holds up a photo of then-Rep. Richard Nixon on July 31, 1975, holding up one of the “Pumpkin Papers” film strips Nixon had brought to New York Federal Court on Dec. 13, 1948. (Getty Images) ...

After more than 40 years of researching the Alger Hiss case, I can say with authority that Mark Kramer was wrong in his March 18 Outlook essay, “Five Myths: Espionage,” when he stated Alger Hiss was a ...

Robert C. Blount, a retired FBI special agent who early in his career was assigned to the Alger Hiss spy case and later spent more than 20 years in the bureau’s Baltimore field office, died May 17 of ...