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Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare, a Hunt for Communists in Postwar America
In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...
10 Suspicious Facts about McCarthyism
McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage.
‘Good Night, and Good Luck’ Theater Review: George Clooney Makes Restrained Broadway Debut in an Adaptation Most Notable for Its Timeliness
Co-writers Clooney and Grant Heslov retool their screenplay for the 2005 film about CBS newsman Edward R. Murrow’s 1954 ...
Mr. Clooney Goes to Broadway
Marvin Kalb is Murrow professor emeritus at Harvard and a former CBS correspondent who was recruited by Murrow himself, the ...
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In Murrow’s empty shoes, a warning for American democracy
Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy. Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor emeritus at ...
The Duty of Law Firms Under Attack
Readers weigh in on the capitulation of the law firm Paul, Weiss to the Trump administration’s demands. Also: Beyond campus ...
George Clooney’s Good Night, and Good Luck: The Broadway audience gasps at Musk’s ‘Nazi salute’
On March 9th, 1954, Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly, however, put out a half-hour CBS documentary, as part of their See ...
‘Good Night, And Good Luck’ Review: George Clooney Makes Broadway Debut Battling Alternative Facts Through The Decades
There are moments in Good Night, and Good Luck, the new play by George Clooney and Grant Heslov opening on Broadway tonight ...
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Newly Declassified Documents Reveal the Untold Stories of the Red Scare, a Hunt for Communists in Postwar America
Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay ...
Donald Trump Calls George Clooney a “Second Rate Movie ‘Star’”
This came after Clooney drew parallels between Edward R. Murrow’s battle with Joseph McCarthy and the government’s current ...
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Mr. Clooney Goes to Broadway
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