The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” smashes box-office records — gets it right that a legendary American ...

Buckley: The Life and the Revolution that Changed America, by Sam Tanenhaus, Random House, 1,040 pages, $40 For decades, ...

History can inform us, but we are always on future’s doorstep. Gene is a retired lawyer, former history professor, occasional journalist. Contact him at geezerdesk@gmail.com.

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 ...

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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 ...

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In 1954, at a banquet at the Waldorf Astoria, Buckley praised McCarthy’s former aide Roy Cohn (a future mentor to Donald Trump ... themes that Buckley and his pals had enunciated during the 1950s, ...

Roy Cohn” The first appointment was cancelled when Cohn (“call ... When the McCarthy hearing legacy evaporated during the 1950s it lead to McCarthy drinking himself to death and Cohn leaving DC and a ...

For upward of half a century starting in the 1950s, those morsels of information ... His portrayal of Roy Cohn in the 1970s-to-80s biopic “The Apprentice” (2024), an enduring example of ...