Welcome to our first press review of events in the United States. Every week we’ll look at how the Swiss media have reported and reacted to three major stories in the US – in politics, finance and science. Unsurprisingly the thread running through all three articles this week is US President Donald Trump, who continues to dominate the media cycle like no one before him. We look at a fascinating, if alarming, period of American history – the Red Scare of the 1950s – and ask whether it’s making a comeback. Plus we examine why the price of gold is rocketing, and why Trump’s efforts to transform the US scientific landscape are an “immensely serious problem” – also for Switzerland. The return of McCarthyism? Arrests, blacklists and deportations – is the United States under Donald Trump entering another era of McCarthyism, as some historians claim? Swiss public radio, SRF, looks at the evidence. “First, a comparison is being made that is certainly plausible, and second, it invokes ...
