Murray Kempton

A new collection of Murray Kempton’s reporting demonstrates how good writing encourages America to do better as a country.

The life and career of Murray Kempton attest to the disappearing ideals of a dying industry. But his example suggests those ideals are not beyond resurrection.

One of his generation’s most prolific journalists, Kempton never turned a blind eye to the inequalities all around him.

Looking at the reporter’s life through five houses in Baltimore.

Reading Mary McCarthy on Vietnam in a new era of wartime illusions.

Bryan Burrough, Chris Tomlinson, and Jason Stanford on the making of a misrepresented narrative.

A new biography of Joseph McCarthy does not reckon with the devastating effects of anti-communism.

Many Communists who felt destined for a life of radicalism experienced their lives as irradiated by a kind of expressiveness that made them feel centered.

The untold story of the double agent who attacked the paper from within.