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 […] ...

Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An American Story” and be horrified by the recognition that the assault of civil ...

The decision is the latest in a series of actions by the Trump Administration during its second term that reflect a broader ...

Hal Brands and Gareth Porter debate the resolution, "The Cold War was a necessary response by the United States to a Soviet and Chinese threat to the global balance of power." Hal Brands, senior ...

This article originally appeared in History of War magazine issue 138. From the earliest days of the Cold War, both the US and the USSR had nuclear weapons, but only one means of delivering a ...

In February, in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, my traveling companion and I boarded the Tazara, the acronym used fondly by its riders to refer to the Tanzania-Zambia Railway. The journey felt like stepping ...

News about Joseph R. McCarthy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

By Paul Mills Election of Chicago born Robert Prevost to the Papacy as Leo XIV has been celebrated as the first American to ...

But when great power competition emerged in 2015 as a framework for U.S. grand strategy, the memory of the Cold War promulgated by foreign policymakers – now used to justify a “New Cold War ...

The Midwest, including Michigan, weren’t spared the Lavender Scare. Michigan U.S. senator Homer Ferguson (1943–1955) and U.S. Congresswoman Clare B. Hoffman (1935–1966) led morality investigations in ...

Waterbury police have identified the body found inside an abandoned building over the weekend as a 40-year-old Torrington man. Joseph McCarthy was found just before 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 15, at a ...

Waterbury police have identified the body found inside an abandoned building over the weekend as a 40-year-old Torrington man. Joseph McCarthy was found just before 5:15 p.m. on Sunday, June 15, at a ...