That vivid imprecation, one of the most telling in American history, was uttered by a crusty Boston lawyer named Joe Welch to Joseph McCarthy, the inflammatory Republican senator from Wisconsin. Many ...

Joe DiPietro's 'Conscience' dramatizes U.S. Sen. Margaret Chase Smith's challenge to Joseph McCarthy's "Red Scare" campaign in a Curtain Call Theatre production opening Oct. 23.

Florida’s proposed anti-communism curriculum faces criticism from some historians, particularly for its treatment of Sen.

Monday marks 72 years since a key report from renowned journalist Edward R. Murrow aired, helped a Michigan man caught in the ...

On June 9, 1950, four months after his breakout speech about Communists in the federal government, Joseph McCarthy was the keynote speaker at the Wisconsin Republican Party's convention in Milwaukee.

One only has to go back several decades to “The Wizard of Oz” to try to understand what is needed now in our world. We live in a world that is being visited upon ...

On Feb. 8, 1950, Joe McCarthy, a still-obscure senator from Wisconsin, addressed a meeting of the Women’s Republican Club in Wheeling, West Virginia. The good ladies were not shocked by his warning ...

Pat Bagley’s cartoon, “No Sense of Decency,” brought back a bad memory. About 20 years ago, I was riding the airport terminal bus from long-term parking with two guys in their mid-20s to 30s, engaged ...

Despite the efforts of some residents in the Bailey Summit neighborhood the city attorney has reaffirmed a decision to let three telecommunications firms add cell phone antennas to the water tower.

It always felt as though this British and Irish Lions squad were ripe for first-time tourists to assert themselves. Two matches in, that hunch has already been validated. Even more impressive than ...