the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph R. McCarthy. The trial, held from May to July 1946 in the former concentration camp at Dachau, Germany, charged German generals along with rank-and-file ...

WilmerHale, which sued the Trump administration over an executive order constraining its ability to do business, has a ...

It was very interesting to see what was happening behind the scenes as Murrow went against McCarthy and tried to use journalism.

McCarthyism advertised itself as a response to national security threats created by the Cold War, including Soviet espionage. But the movement was bigger than Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare.

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...

During the "Lavender Scare" incited by Senator Joseph McCarthy, many gay Americans were harassed, arrested, and put on trial ...

The Village Voice reviews George Clooney’s Broadway drama about straight-shooting newsman Edward R. Murrow exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy.

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

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 ...

Certainly anyone who lived through one of the shabbiest times in recent American history, the insensate hunt for Communists with the late Senator Joseph McCarthy as the leader of the pack ...