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 ...

Three of President Donald Trump’s most controversial nominees faced sharp questions in the Senate during hearings Thursday ...

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 ...