Anticipating Lake, who accused Voice of America of refusing to identify the October 7, 2023, Hamas invasion of Israel as a ...

At the height of the Cold War, Sen. Joseph McCarthy rose to power by stoking fears, declaring his opponents "enemies of the state,” and overwhelming the press and the public with lies. His hunt for ...

It has been 70 years since Edward R. Murrow’s withering broadcast report about Cold War demagogue Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, a program that has been called television’s “ finest half-hour ...

McCarthy was right about the high stakes of the Cold War; it was also true that of the handful of high-placed traitors who had been exposed, at least one of them had attended prestigious schools ...

The volatile combination of a hyper-suspicious Cold War-era Washington and McCarthy's outlandish accusations of some of the top brass in DC -- including the U.S. Army -- led to McCarthy's highly ...

Beginning in 1950, McCarthy became the most visible public face of a period in the United States in which Cold War tensions fueled fears of widespread communist subversion. Wikipedia* ...

When Senator Joseph P. McCarthy stood up at a meeting of the Republican Women’s Club in Wheeling, W.Va., in February 1950 and claimed to have in his hand the identities of 205 Communist ...

Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator whose name became a synonym for witch hunts and demagoguery, may finally be ready for his closeup — more than 40 years since his last one.

Joseph Wershba, a Journalist Who Helped Take On McCarthy, Dies at 90 Working with Edward R. Murrow, Mr. Wershba interviewed Lt. Milo Radulovich, whose dismissal from the Air Force became a symbol ...

"We can go all the way back, of course, to the time of the Cold War and back to the 1920s, '30s, '40s when communists, you know, the KGB, infiltrated our government at the very highest levels ...