Cohn served as chief counsel to Joseph McCarthy in the early 1950s, when the Wisconsin senator was riding roughshod over the ...

Clay Risen, a New York Times reporter who has written several volumes of popular history, has now tackled the familiar story ...

An American Story — explores the Red Scare era of American history through posters, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets ...

Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Plus, former WXPN host to emcee Hedgerow concert; composers and TV shows; and Clooney, Murrow, ‘Good Night and Good Luck’ ...

It’s a straight play about the history of television news. Granted, it happens to star George Clooney, and there are a few ...

For the first time ever, CNN will broadcast a Broadway performance live. History will be made on Friday, June 6, as the five-time Tony-nominated production of “Good Night, and Good Luck” takes to the ...

The author of a new biography talks about the conservative journalist’s life and legacy.

Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for ... but one current politician lives in the 1950s: Trump, still calling people “communists.” McCarthy died at 48, his poor ...

during the Army-McCarthy hearings. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously rebuked McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last?” — puncturing his aura of invincibility. But other ...