The latest work of historical non-fiction from Meg Waite Clayton, 'Typewriter Beach,' looks at the hurdles women face in ...

I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as the primary prosecutor of the […] ...

Mamdani was born in Kampala, Uganda, and his middle name, Kwame, was a tribute to Kwame Nkrumah, a political theorist and ...

Point taken. Others slammed Springsteen as traitorous or a communist — paging Joseph McCarthy! If one didn’t know the digital swamp better, one might find the comments of the bilious segment who ...

The play, “Good Night, and Good Luck,” stars George Clooney as veteran CBS newscaster Edward R. Murrow as he takes a stand against the anti-communist witch hunts of the 1950s. The story is based on ...

"Good Night, and Good Luck" originated as a 2005 film starring George Clooney, David Strathairn, Patricia Clarkson and Robert ...

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, by Clay Risen, Scribner, 480 pages, $31 Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular ...

New York Young Republican Club and far-right Republicans demand his removal and the return of Red Scare-era McCarthyism ...

Afterward, McCarthy targeted not just Murrow, but also the CBS network and Alcoa, the single corporate sponsor of “See It Now.” McCarthy threatened to investigate the aluminum maker.

Risen's coverage of the Second Red Scare spans from 1946 through the 1957 death of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R–Wisc.). It covers the oft-trod ground—the early espionage cases of Alger Hiss and ...