Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.

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." ...

Instead of quoting myself in that long-ago piece, I want to call attention to perhaps the definitive book on Joe McCarthy and McCarthyism, "Senator Joe McCarthy," by Richard Rovere (Methuen and Co ...

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 ...

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 ...

A native of Watkins, Minnesota, Eugene Joseph McCarthy graduated ... 1982 with an unsuccessful bid for his old Senate seat from Minnesota. Since then McCarthy has taught, lectured, and written ...

got sensational results in the game last week. She asked both Columnist Drew Pearson and his mortal enemy Senator Joe McCarthy to a little dinner she was giving at the fashionable Sulgrave Club.

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 ...