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 […] ...

George Clooney's latest theatrical endeavor, Good Night, and Good Luck, aired live on CNN. The vision for the live broadcast ...

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

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

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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.

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

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 ...

Historian Nancy Baker Jones was a child when her father, who was serving in the U.S. Army in Europe, was called home in 1953 to testify at U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hearings on an alleged ...

Opinion This journalist was the real hero behind Joe McCarthy’s takedown Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. History gives him little credit for it. June 2, 2025 5 min ...