The play “Conscience” from RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theater opened on May 16 and runs through June 1st. The performance follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red ...

THUMBNAIL SKETCH: CONSCIENCE tells the story of Margaret Chase Smith—a woman of historic firsts and unshakable courage. As the first woman from Maine elected to both the House and Senate, she made ...

One reason I felt compelled to try to see "Good Night, and Good Luck" — in which George Clooney portrays broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow — on Broadway this spring can be found in a short ...

In 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy claimed America was being infiltrated from within, and the nation erupted. He was ridiculed, censured, and ultimately destroyed, his name turned into a synonym for ...

Roger Ebert was a tough critic, but even he found this 2005 political drama starring David Strathairn and Robert Downey Jr. worthy of a rare perfect score.

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

Set in 1952, when Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson were vying for the presidency, Senator Joe McCarthy was busy with his anti-Communist witch hunts, and America was humming songs from South ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

It’s on You: How Corporations and Behavioral Scientists Have Convinced Us That We’re to Blame for Society’s Deepest Problems Journalist Moor (On Trails) defines trees as “a way of being” in this ...

CDR copy-- FW-ASCH-7RR-2297 contains part of a documentary about Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin and his infamous career heading the House Unamerican Activities Committee during the 1950's. The ...