American politician Joseph McCarthy, Republican senator from Wisconsin, testifies against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, DC on June 9, 1954.

A new McCarthyism finds a champion in Donald Trump. Sen. Joseph McCarthy speaks to his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, during the Senate’s Army-McCarthy hearings in April 1954.

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.

Risen's coverage of the Second Red Scare spans from 1946 through the 1957 death of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R–Wisc.). It covers the oft-trod ground—the early espionage cases of Alger Hiss and ...

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 reporters hadn’t ...

Revisiting McCarthyism in the Patriot Act Era On Sept. 4, 1954, Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-WI) took the stand to defend himself against censure charges stemming from his campaign to purge the nation ...

On Feb. 9, 1950, the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, gave a radio speech in Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged that . . . I can barely bring myself to type the next words -- not ...

In the late 1940s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy arrived in Columbus, Ohio, to make a speech but within an hour allegedly was shooting craps. "It was a disgusting sight," according to a source, "to see ...

Chief Senate counsel representing the Army Joseph Welch (left) being questioned by Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy during the McCarthy-Army hearings in 1954. (Wikimedia Commons / US Senate ...

Federal Judge William Young’s recent words from the bench sounded a lot like Joseph Welch’s famous rebuke of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954.

Thousands of supporters of Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.) filled the lower sections of Madison Square Garden in New York on Nov. 29, 1954, rallying to his cause. (AP) Perspective by Beverly Gage A ...