U.S. Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, heads to a closed-door meeting of the House Republican Conference. If Roy follows in former U.S.

The standards soften decades of criticism of former U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy, who led a political movement to root out what ...

MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - On this day, Nov. 14, 1908, former Republican U.S. Senator Joseph McCarthy was born in Grand Chute. Before his time in the Senate, McCarthy served for three years as the 10th ...

Students in Florida’s public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War that is steeped ...

Michigan State University Libraries received a $1 million federal grant to digitize early WKAR-TV programs from the 1950s and ...

When Jean is remembered at all, she is often dismissed simply as a supporter of her husband. But she was Joe’s indispensable ...

I am old enough (barely) to remember the era when Joseph McCarthy declared that there were communists within the government, the military, and Hollywood. He claimed that he was going to ferret them ...

If we want to understand how we arrived in this authoritarian moment in 2025, we need to understand one of the central pathways that brought us here: McCarthyism. As we enter something like another ...

Georgetown graduate Clay Risen is a noted historian and veteran New York Times reporter. His current book, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America explores Congress's ...

“We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of ...