Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

The second Trump presidency recalls Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts, and the American Nazi movement of ...

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far ... He was eventually exonerated but those hearings took a lasting economic and personal toll on the scholar. Here's how they worked.

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that ... From that point on the Army-McCarthy hearings degenerated into a series ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...