In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed America was being infiltrated from within, and the nation erupted. He was ridiculed, censured, and ultimately destroyed, his name turned into a synonym for ...

The play “Conscience” from RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theater opened on May 16 and runs through June 1st. The performance follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red ...

Live from Broadway (now on Netflix) reasserts George Clooney’s message about the necessity of the fourth estate. His snapshot ...

One reason I felt compelled to try to see "Good Night, and Good Luck" — in which George Clooney portrays broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow — on Broadway this spring can be found in a short ...

George Clooney’s drama about straight-shooting newsman Edward R. Murrow exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lies and cruelties draws clear parallels to Trump’s tyrannies. A Republican demagogue ...

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

True Color: The Strange and Spectacular Quest to Define Color—from Azure to Zinc Pink Lexicographer Stamper (Word by Word) takes readers on an uproarious journey into Merriam-Webster’s somber ...

Set in 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were vying for the presidency, Senator Joe McCarthy was busy with his anti-Communist witch hunts, and America was humming songs from South ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.