In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper, Clooney drew a through line from the era in which Murrow questioned Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy’s actions to today’s political landscape.

“From the moment that Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy began his smear campaign in February of 1950 up until his censure by the U.S. Senate in 1954, the story of McCarthy was not just the story of ...

Murrow was one of the most respected broadcasters of his time, known for his live World War II reporting and later for confronting Senator Joseph McCarthy at the height of the Red Scare.

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954.

In the early 1950s, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin rose to power by creating a campaign of fear. McCarthy destroyed countless lives while going after the Army, Hollywood, and ordinary ...

Senator Joe McCarthy, who led the second Red Scare, and Donald Trump’s favorite lawyer, Roy Cohn, helped lead the charge. Maybe that’s where Donald got his homophobia.

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America By Clay Risen Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $31 On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin, addressed ...

The RKP Production follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red Scare’s anti-communist crackdown and senator Margaret Chase Smith’s efforts to counter him.