Murray Levin News Today

After the war, in 1947, as the Cold War was heating up, the HUAC held a series of sensational hearings into Hollywood's alleged Communist influence, leading to the conviction and blacklisting of the so-called Hollywood Ten.

John Tirman, an MIT scholar in political theory and expert on U.S.-Iran relations and human security, has died at age 72. Tirman served as the executive director of and principal research scientist at the MIT Center for International Studies.