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 […] ...

Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An American Story” and be horrified by the recognition that the assault of civil ...

The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the Trump Administration during its second term that reflect a broader ...

Exploring the Cold War History Behind ‘Perfect Arrangement’ Matthew Coffey, the daughter of the actress Julia Coffey, was involved in similar government operations as the one outlined in the play.

Set in 1953, it focuses on Murrow's ferocious battle with Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, network sponsors and even his employers as he tries to expose the tactics of the House Un-American Activities ...

By Paul Mills Election of Chicago born Robert Prevost to the Papacy as Leo XIV has been celebrated as the first American to ...

The Broadway play, which recounts CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s unflinching 1954 broadcasts about Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s Cold War witch hunts, has stirred comparisons between McCarthyism and Trumpism ...

In taking "Good Night, and Good Luck" from Broadway to live TV, George Clooney returns — once again — to the medium he trusts ...

At the time, the country was gripped by Cold War paranoia, some of it stoked by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s trumped-up claims about communist infiltration of the government, Hollywood and other ...

Schrecker is the author of many books about the McCarthy era, Cold War politics and right-wing attacks on academic freedom. Her recent piece for The Nation is headlined “Worse Than McCarthyism ...

Ms. Kingsbury is the Opinion editor of The New York Times. In 1950, though it didn’t know it yet, the American government held one of the keys to winning the Cold War: Qian Xuesen, a brilliant ...

It has come to this: The U.S. will broadcast One America News The Trump administration is not the first to try to make Voice of America its propaganda arm.