In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

This guy is great. The guy who was against him, have you no decency? Right. They were saying that about McCarthy when he was making false allegations about people being communists. However ...

Margaret Chase Smith of Maine on June 1, 1950, in her challenge of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. Her fellow Republican proclaimed with certainty that there were communists in the government, a claim that ...

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.

Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America’ by Clay Risen “As a scholarly subject, the Red Scare has never ...

Co-writers Clooney and Grant Heslov retool their screenplay for the 2005 film about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s 1954 ...

Since it's been over 70 years since Sen. Joseph McCarthy used his power as chairman of a Senate investigative committee to bully and crush citizens at his whim, the closest younger Americans can come ...

Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy. Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor emeritus at Harvard University, is author of “A Different Russia ...

George Clooney is making his Broadway debut in "Good Night, and Good Luck," telling the story of pioneering reporter Edward R. Murrow. During rehearsals, Clooney stressed the importance of a free ...

Apr. 2—"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" Kermit the Frog once sang. Well, it's because of Yip Harburg. Although not a household name, Harburg is the lyricist behind "Over the Rainbow." He ...