McCarthy’s allegations sparked widespread panic, as fear quickly spread, especially after a congressional subcommittee was ...

Liz Cheney, daughter of former Vice President Dick Cheney and co-founder of the advocacy group Keep America Safe, is being criticized on the right for going too far in an ad deeming Justice Department ...

The John Batchelor Show, December 6. Nation Contributing Editor Stephen F. Cohen and John Batchelor continue their weekly discussions of the new US-Russian Cold War. (Previous installments are at ...

As FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress on Monday, Rep. Adam Schiff invoked a term with a fraught history in American politics: McCarthyism. The fraught term was invoked by President ...

Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio on July 21, 2016. (Reuters / Mark Kauzlarich) By signing up, you confirm that you are over ...

It’s one of the most well-known – and written about chapters in American political history. Less covered, is the strong Massachusetts connection. Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy didn’t create the ...

Today’s young people might have heard the phrase “McCarthyism,” and if they have, it’s as some horrible miasma of Nazism and the “killing fields” and ...

In 2017, Stephen Galloway described the possibility of a new era of McCarthyism in Hollywood. Writing in The Hollywood Reporter, where he then served as executive editor, Galloway compared the ...

With a vehemence which he usually reserves for the political bear pits, Harry Truman last week turned the full weight of the presidency against “McCarthyism.” He did not use the word, or mention the ...

If you put John Kerry, Barack Obama and Tom Steyer in a room together, you would still yet to have a single scientist there. Even so, the three are hypocritically leading a campaign to demonize ...

It was regrettably predictable that Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson would not get through her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee without having to endure a McCarthyist smear from Republicans, ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Students in Florida's public schools will soon be learning an interpretation of McCarthyism and the Cold War fight against communism that is steeped in the rhetoric of that ...