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 ...

But Joe McCarthy, who once told a friend that in his dying hour he would hope to fix his mind on some image of personal glory, might have judged himself a failure in the last twelve months of his ...

Carolyn McCarthy, a fierce proponent of gun control who represented parts of Long Island in Congress for nearly 20 years, has ...

Once Senator McCarthy self-destructed before a national television audience in the spring of 1954, the movement that bore his name no longer dominated domestic politics.

Former New York Rep. Carolyn McCarthy, known as a prominent advocate for gun control, has died at the age of 81.

On This Day: McCarthyism and the Red Scare . On this day in 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy (Republican-Wisconsin) in a speech in WV, claimed he had a list of individuals in the U.S. government who ...

The Vermont senator voted against Joe Biden and Kevin McCarthy's debt deal on Thursday. Bernie Sanders speaks during a news conference in Washington, D.C., on May 4, 2023.

A narrower-than-anticipated House Republican majority and a growing number of House Republicans expressing opposition to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) are threatening to derail hi… ...

Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon and others in MAGA media have recently praised disgraced Sen. Joe McCarthy and his blacklists, a tactic that Project 2025 partner organization the American ...

For several years before Joseph McCarthy first waved around his ever-changing list of supposed Communists in the State Department at a Republican dinner in Wheeling, West Virginia on February 9 ...