So today there was a hearing, and the Republican chair is a guy named Self — S, E, L, F. Do we have a picture of him? There ...

Decades after Sen. Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare, one man’s revenge campaign is muzzling the capital again. How Trump Silenced Washington A veil of fear shrouds Washington as a power-hungry ...

This month, 75 years ago, Sen. Joe McCarthy (R-Wisc.) gave his infamous speech denouncing disloyal Americans working at the highest levels of our government. It was the defining moment for what ...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) made the Red Scare into a public spectacle, grilling hundreds of Americans in Senate hearings about “enemies from within”: the communist agents supposedly ...

He was censured by the Senate in 1954 and died three years later. U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Grand Chute is remembered for fueling fears of widespread communist subversion in the early 1950s.

In her debut novel, “Eavesdropper,” Alexandra Kivowitz takes the reader, through the lens of 14-year-old protagonist Sara Green, to a black spot in American history, when Sen. Joe McCarthy bullied the ...

Margaret Chase Smith is famous for standing up to Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who with the help of his lawyer Roy Cohn and feckless fellow senators, conducted a cruel and destructive witch ...

To me, that was exactly what McCarthy was doing.” McCarthy is U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy from Wisconsin, who used the threat of communist infiltration into American politics, entertainment and ...

Murrow, who died in 1965, is considered one of the architects of U.S. broadcast news and perhaps his greatest moment was opposing Sen. Joe McCarthy, who cynically created paranoia of a communist ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls ...