McCarthy’s protégé, the imperious attorney Roy Cohn, 30 years later became Donald Trump’s mentor, channeling the senator’s adversarial playbook to the eventual president.

As McCarthy fueled public fear with claims of Communist infiltration, Murrow used his CBS show See It Now to push back, challenging the senator’s accusations and methods on national television.

Other journalists had excoriated McCarthy earlier, in print and on the radio, but Murrow met the medium and the moment in 1954, demonstrating the senator’s smear tactics and stirring a severe ...

Arizona State Senator Wendy Rogers tweeted a photo of late U.S. Senator Joe McCarthy on Saturday, with text encouraging people to follow in his footsteps of getting, "rid of the communists." ...

We know Murrow’s story — exposing the red-baiting demagoguery of Senator Joseph McCarthy — as history. And history, once set down on the page and stage, can seem inevitable.