Months earlier, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) had made an outrageous claim in Wheeling, W.V.: that there were 205 communists working within the State Department.

Months earlier, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) had made an outrageous claim in Wheeling, W.V.: that there were 205 communists working within the State Department.

The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s “Good Night, and Good Luck” smashes box-office records — gets it right that a legendary ...

The RKP Production follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red Scare’s anti-communist crackdown and senator Margaret Chase Smith’s efforts to counter him.

Madison's connections to Murrow and McCarthy Seeing "Good Night, and Good Luck" on Broadway reminds Doug Moe of local ties to Murrow's history-altering, on-air takedown of Senator Joseph McCarthy.

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. It was an ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy, right, spoke with his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, during a hearing of the Senate Investigations Subcommittee in Washington, April 22, 1954.

These words are not from the recent record but rather those of Sen. Margaret Chase Smith of Maine on June 1, 1950, in her challenge of Sen. Joseph McCarthy.

McCarthy was on the right side of history, it turns out. But given where we are in this transgender mess, I think somebody — I think the people who are pushing back, it has to be done.

The second Trump presidency recalls Senator Joseph McCarthy's anti-communist witch hunts, and the American Nazi movement of the 1930s.

On This Day: Senator launches 'McCarthy era' On Feb. 9, 1950, U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, R-Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists ...

Who remembers the early 1950’s when U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy repeatedly warned Congress, and indeed the country, about the communist enemy within?