This mattered because it was his article that ignited McCarthyism. In the eighth paragraph, the reporter repeated the claim from the speech text that McCarthy had “a list of 205” spies.

Few lines better capture the phenomenon of McCarthyism, born 75 years ago. It was a birth that was far from immaculate. McCarthy would never have gone so far — apologies to Isaac Newton — had ...

In 1950 Senator Joseph McCarthy declared to Congress that Far East scholar Owen Lattimore was a "top Russian spy." Lattimore tried to clear his name before two congressional committees. He was ...

The clearest indication of the political disorientation of the SWP was its reaction to the growth of McCarthyism in 1953–54. It concluded that the witch-hunting Republican senator from Wisconsin ...

He recalled that the "necessity of resistance" to McCarthyism fundamentally transformed his family, and that he learned the importance of remaining silent in order to protect his mother ...

Stephen L. Carter is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist, a professor of law at Yale University and author of “Invisible: The Story of the Black Woman Lawyer Who Took Down America’s Most Powerful ...

A Green Feather Group of "Merry Men" will be organized here in the next few weeks in order to fight McCarthyism. The Student Council last night decided to distribute national information on this ...

“I was struck this summer when [now Vice President] JD Vance was talking about these Haitian immigrants in Ohio who are supposedly eating pets,” says Nashville native Risen, a historian and ...

“The Crucible” is a dramatization of the Salem Witch Trials that took place in the ... Arthur Miller penned the play as an allegory for McCarthyism, which is named for Sen.

This communist witch hunt therefore became known as ‘McCarthyism’. The term also refers to outlandish, sensationalist, unproven accusations of communist sympathy and connections. McCarthy's ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...