Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Wis., charged the U.S. State Department was infested with communists, touching off the infamous "McCarthy era." ...

Republican senator Joseph McCarthy was one such politician. McCarthy grabbed headlines in 1950 with his claim that he held a list of 205 State Department employees who were "known Communists." ...

More than seven decades later, the legacies of the Red Scare have resurfaced in the United States – this time targeting China ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Senator Joseph R. McCarthy this week picked out John K. Fairbank '29, professor of History, for special mention as one of the many authors of "pro-communist" books in the State Department's ...

Gerry Connolly accused President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of creating "McCarthy era 2.0" among government employees. The post Democrat Who Pushed To Subpoena Elon Musk Accuses Trump of Creating ...