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, manager of the new J.C. Penney's store in ShoppingTown Mall, checks over the Italian glass chandelier with ...

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.

Journalist Clay Risen is out with a new narrative history of the Red Scare, based in part on newly declassified sources. In ...

Goldberg’s Red Scare analogy is accurate—but too narrowly ideological, blaming the political purge on right-wing troglodytes like Senator Joseph McCarthy. In truth, both Red Scares were ...

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

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

Look back at actions of former Harvard president Nathan Pusey, who took on Senator Joseph McCarthy during the Red Scare. Larry Tye, a former Globe reporter, is the author of “Demagogue ...