This tactic was employed by Senator Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) in the 1950’s. He read out lists of alleged communists and fellow travelers on the Senate floor. Under the Constitution, named individuals ...

During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the ...

George Clooney’s drama about straight-shooting newsman Edward R. Murrow exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lies and cruelties draws clear parallels to Trump’s tyrannies. A Republican demagogue ...

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

In February 1950, Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy began a four-year crusade of baseless accusations against alleged communists in government, academia and the entertainment industry. It was an era ...

Democrats and Republicans remain miles apart on nearly everything these days, but there is one point on which both parties are in complete agreement: McCarthyism is back. Under Trump 2.0, Americans in ...

One reason I felt compelled to try to see "Good Night, and Good Luck" — in which George Clooney portrays broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow — on Broadway this spring can be found in a short ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.