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

Decades after Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, one man’s revenge campaign is muzzling the capital again. How Trump Silenced Washington A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry Republican issues one threat after another. He's a textbook bully. He not only lies – he repeats big lies that become truths to his frightened ...

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Hlavaty led the mathematics department at New York City’s prestigious Bronx High School of Science, and was widely considered one of the best math teachers in America. He wore a gray chalk-striped ...

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 his home office hangs a political cartoon of Murrow as Don Quixote slaying the dragon, depicting U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy, who dominated the political climate at that time with sensational but ...

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 with ...

On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin, addressed a meeting of the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The good ladies were not shocked by his ...