Iowa native Joseph Welch said, "Have you no decency, sir?" and we need people with his courage today, writes Thomas Doughty.

Donald Trump, a disciple of Roy Cohn, and the MAGA movement are the modern-day embodiment of Sen. Joseph McCarthy, Roy Cohn and the Red Scare hearings of the early 1950s.

H.A. Smith (extreme left) and Rep. J. Parnell Thomas (right center) stand with hands upraised on October 20, 1947, as Smith, ...

Drew Pearson rebuked Sen. Joseph McCarthy early and often. ... From the late 1940s through the mid-1950s, his coverage routinely fixated on the Wisconsin senator. Advertisement.

In the 1950s, Edward R. Murrow, on his TV show “See it Now,” cried out, in effect, that, “The Emperor has no clothes,” and the fall of Sen. Joseph McCarthy began. We need someone like that ...

News about Joseph R. McCarthy, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

It was an electric, historic moment. I was 13 and watching the Army-McCarthy hearings with my mother in June, 1954. Sen. Joseph McCarthy had engineered hearings investigating the Army for ...

For the first time ever, CNN will broadcast a Broadway performance live. History will be made on Friday, June 6, as the five-time Tony-nominated production of “Good Night, and Good Luck” takes to the ...

Joseph McCarthy, Republican senator from Wisconsin, stands before a map charting alleged communist activity in the United States on June 9, 1954. Getty Images/Hulton Archive/Getty Images ...

The play transports viewers back to the 1950s but feels equally relevant in the 2020s with its themes of unrestrained political power, corporate timidity and journalistic integrity.

Get out of the heat this summer and feel your blood boil – come to The New York Historical’s new exhibit, “Blacklisted: An ...

An American Story — explores the Red Scare era of American history through posters, newspaper clippings, political pamphlets ...