You can hear echoes of Buckley's early career in more than one MAGA crusader's rhetoric today. That's not a sign of a man who ...

The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck ...

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The play mirrors real life, but will real life turn out differently from the play? The post Shari Redstone’s Standoff With ...

San Diego-based One America News, or OAN, was the first TV news outlet to carry Trump’s campaign speeches live and in full — a decision followed quickly by a directiv ...

Murray Kempton’s politics were as idiosyncratic as his writing style. He was a journalist who always seemed to be where the ...

Seeing "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway reminds Doug Moe of local ties to Murrow's history-altering, on-air takedown ...

Such election outcomes, notes the New Yorker, led to the demise of red-baiting Wisconsin senator Joseph McCarthy’s career in the 1950s, whose chief counsel Roy Cohn, also mentored Trump.

Trump is once again calling opponents “communists” as his administration wages policy fights on trade and in the courts.

Deacon Maccubin, founder of Lambda Rising bookstore in Dupont Circle, holds DC’s first annual Pride event, the Gay Pride ...

Joseph McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, conducted televised hearings in the 1950s that drove anti-communist ... The senator's chief counsel during the hearings, Roy Cohn, became Trump's mentor ...