At the height of the Red Scare, Margaret Chase Smith was willing to pay the price of taking on Joseph McCarthy.

Donald Trump is playing the role of Joseph McCarthy. The very institutions he is assaulting must challenge him.

Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who had purportedly come here to speak in behalf of Sen. George W. Malone, now seeking re-election. Instead of speaking for Malone the Wisconsin senator leveled his ...

King also said that President Trump is "attempting to govern like a monarch." The independent also accused many of his ...

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.

"Do you ever stop and wonder about Elon Musk?" LuPone asked Clooney. "Isn’t he destroying the government? When does he have ...

Sen. Angus King urged his colleagues on Tuesday to put country over party and warned of creeping authoritarianism, invoking the iconic 1950 speech by former Maine Sen. Margaret Chase Smith. "Mr.

Independent U.S. Senator Angus King is using a 1950 speech by a Maine Republican Senator to rail against the Trump ...

In 1950, U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." The State Department denied the allegation 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 ...

George Clooney, who is currently staring in the Broadway show Goodnight, and Good Luck, just recently received his Sardi's ...

Murrow’s 1954 takedown of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. By David Rooney Chief Film Critic Late in the action of Good Night, and Good Luck, Clark Gregg — in a moving performance as CBS newscaster Don ...