The rollback of LGBTQ rights and inclusion echoes an often overlooked, but deeply consequential, chapter of American history: ...

In 1954, Wyoming U.S. Sen. Lester C. Hunt committed suicide. The tragedy came about after his 20-year-old son was arrested for soliciting services from a male ...

H.A. Smith (extreme left) and Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (right center) stand with hands upraised on October 20, 1947, as Smith, ...

The retribution is now under way. Mr Trump’s administration has withheld hundreds of millions of dollars in federal grants ...

The play reminds us that Edward R. Murrow was unwilling simply to “show” the issues raised by McCarthyism through ...

Broadway says goodbye to two limited run productions. Good Night, and Good Luck takes its final bow at the Winter Garden Theatre following 22 previews and 77 regular performances; and Othello will ...

Good Night, and Good Luck, which opened in April, is nominated for five Tony Awards, including Best Actor. Adapted from ...

For the first time ever, CNN will broadcast a Broadway performance live. History will be made on Friday, June 6, as the five-time Tony-nominated production of “Good Night, and Good Luck” takes to the ...

The paranoia and conspiracy theories of the McCarthy era still inform our culture and politics in the present day.

They’re also part of the story told in Clay Risen’s Red Scare: Blacklists ... leanings—the most visible led by Wisconsin Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, who in the early 1950s claimed he ...