I’m enjoying a documentary about the Cold War, which, not surprisingly, includes a segment regarding the late Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy is infamously known as the primary prosecutor of the […] ...

Because Joseph McCarthy fingered so many innocent people, it was common at the time to assume that most of the Cold War red scare’s other victims were also “innocent liberals.” They were not ...

McCarthyism was bigger than Joseph McCarthy—and it continued even after his personal disgrace. McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War ...

At the start of 1950, Joseph McCarthy’s political future did not look promising. McCarthy had been elected senator from Wisconsin in 1946, ... That speech was the start of the Cold War.

News about Joseph R. McCarthy, ... JD Vance and his allies represent a mind-set that dates back to the McCarthy era and the dawn of the Cold War. By Clay Risen . Ensayo invitado.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator Joseph McCarthy upended the nation April 1, 2025 ...

In 1953, while Nash was at M.I.T., FBI agents went after three members of the university's math department who previously had been members of the Communist Party.

Few newsrooms have the courage to hire another Edward R. Murrow, who championed truth over lies when he challenged the powerful Senator Joseph McCarthy. Marvin Kalb, Murrow professor emeritus at ...

At the time, the country was gripped by Cold War paranoia, some of it stoked by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s trumped-up claims about communist infiltration of the government, Hollywood and other ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy, chairman of the Government Committee on Operations of the ... But news reports and McCarthy’s prepared text suggest that he painted a dark picture of the Cold War.

On This Day: McCarthyism and the Red Scare . On this day in 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) in a speech in WV, claimed he had a list of individuals in the U.S. government who ...