McCarthyism. With that speech, Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy seized the nation’s attention and would hold it for four years. Yet his words probably would have faded into obscurity if ...

As Broadway prepares to reckon with the effect of McCarthyism on journalism in the new drama, Good Night and Good Luck, go ...

I got an unexpected email last week from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It referenced the Prevention ...

Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America By Clay Risen Simon & Schuster, 480 pages, $31 On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin, addressed a ...

Clay Risen examines Cold War hysteria in an even-handed way, trusting readers to make the connection between McCarthyism and ...

In a CNN interview Monday, the executive director of the New York Civil Liberties Union likened the arrest of a ...

They speak of the birth of a new “McCarthyism” — the Cold War era communist witch-hunt launched by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy. In universities, in Hollywood, in the press ...