Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the ...

So today there was a hearing, and the Republican chair is a guy named Self — S, E, L, F. Do we have a picture of him? There ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls ...

In 1953, the author Langston Hughes was called before Senator Joseph McCarthy’s Subcommittee on Investigations to answer questions about Communist influences in his writing. The private ...

When did the purge begin? The so-called Red Scare started in the early days of the Cold War. With America gripped by fears of ...

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.

In 2005, George Clooney wrote, directed and acted in the historical drama “Good Night and Good Luck.” Clooney’s film, which tells the tale of trailblazing journalist Edward R. Murrow and his battle ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...

Certainly anyone who lived through one of the shabbiest times in recent American history, the insensate hunt for Communists with the late Senator Joseph McCarthy as the leader of the pack ...