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.

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 ...

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.

Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay ...

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 ...

Sen. Joseph McCarthy stands in front of a map highlighting communist organizations in the U.S. (Image credit: ... The so-called Red Scare started in the early days of the Cold War.

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.