Joe DiPietro's 'Conscience' dramatizes U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's challenge to Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scare" campaign ...

Monday marks 72 years since a key report from renowned journalist Edward R. Murrow aired, helped a Michigan man caught in the ...

McCarthy’s investigations into alleged subversion and espionage in the early 1950s including as chairman of the Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations saw his name become shorthand for the practice ...

President Trump offered a carrot-or-stick deal to USC and eight other colleges. On first glance, it may not sound that bad to ...

Jane Fonda has relaunched the Committee for the First Amendment, which was founded by her father Henry Fonda in the late ...

There is no doubt the face of democracy is changing. So fast that artists have not yet found a way to create original work ...

Actor and director Rob Reiner is issuing a warning amid Donald Trump’s continued crackdown on free speech, cautioning that ...

Robeson was only one of dozens of activists whose passports were seized during the era of McCarthyism. Despite the ...

Terri Lesley, a former library director, said she was wrongfully terminated for refusing to bow to county officials’ demands ...

OP-ED. In an op-ed for Le Monde, the American studies scholar voices concern over the climate of suspicion and repression ...

This Trumpian moment recalls the industry's infamous blacklist era. Fittingly, Jane Fonda has resurrected the Committee for the First Amendment.

CBS’ cancellation of Stephen Colbert’s “Late Show” was announced just days after Colbert slammed CBS’ parent company, Paramount, for giving Trump $16 million to settle Trump’s defamation suit — which ...