The play “Conscience” from RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theater opened on May 16 and runs through June 1st. The performance follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red ...

The 1954 attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Same can be asked of today's administration.

That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named Joe Welch to Joseph McCarthy, the inflammatory Republican senator from Wisconsin. Many ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Conscience is the story of Senator Margaret Chase Smith, a trailblazer of ...

MONICA CROWLEY (GUEST): Eisenhower warned against the threat of the military-industrial complex, what we now call the deep state. What most people don't know is that in Nixon's second term, Steve, he ...

Alger Hiss, accused of Communist espionage, takes an oath during hearings before the House Committee on Un-American Activities. He denied Whittaker Chambers' accusation that he was a Communist, Getty ...

Joseph Raymond McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957. Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

One reason I felt compelled to try to see "Good Night, and Good Luck" — in which George Clooney portrays broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow — on Broadway this spring can be found in a short ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy “comes along really chronologically halfway through the story [in the early 1950s], and there’s a lot that happened before he was even on the scene,” says author Clay Risen.

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...