Former House Speaker Kevin McCarthy criticized Democratic Party leadership on Fox News Thursday, calling them the most ...

In “Red Scare,” Clay Risen shows how culture in the United States is still driven by the political paranoia of the 1950s.

At its height, the political crackdown felt terrifying and all-encompassing. What can we learn from how the movement unfolded ...

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

One member of the audience interrupted Cataldo’s questioning to refer to him as “Senator McCarthy,” an apparent reference to the Sen. Joseph McCarthy’s attempts to uncover supposed ...

McCarthy rose to power as a radical anti-communist, campaigning on his own version of the “America First” philosophy that ...

At the height of the McCarthy hubbub last spring, Maine’s Senator Margaret Chase Smith rose on the floor of the Senate and directed some pointed remarks at her glowering colleague.

In 1949, New York State passed the so-called Feinberg Law, which made membership in any group labeled subversive by the U.S.