In a nearly forgotten episode, the Wisconsin firebrand sided with the Germany military in a war crimes trial, raising questions about his anti-Semitism Larry Tye Before Senator Joe McCarthy became ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

They speak of the birth of a new “McCarthyism” — the Cold War era communist witch-hunt launched by Republican Senator Joseph ...

Last week the U.S. Senate and one of its committees examined two special targets of Wisconsin’s Senator Joe McCarthy. Results: ¶ As the Senate considered President Eisenhower’s nomination of ...

Apr. 2—"Why are there so many songs about rainbows?" Kermit the Frog once sang. Well, it's because of Yip Harburg. Although not a household name, Harburg is the lyricist behind "Over the Rainbow." He ...

Steve Bannon and other right-wing pundits have recently praised the anti-communist senator and called for a return of literal McCarthyism Fox News keeps misleadingly telling its viewers Trump isn ...

But RFK honed his anti-communism working side-by-side with the nation's leading red-baiter, Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin. A Kennedy family friend, McCarthy vacationed with the clan on ...

On March 9th, 1954, Murrow and his producer Fred Friendly, however, put out a half-hour CBS documentary, as part of their See It Now series, titled A Report on Senator Joseph McCarthy, in which they ...

Good Night, and Good Luck opens on Broadway starring Hollywood icon, George Clooney in his long-awaited Broadway debut in a ...