Some of today's most influential figures in politics won power the way McCarthy did: willingness to say things that capture ...

Back in the 1950s, in the United States, even a whisper of sympathy for Russia or the Soviet Union was unthinkable and seen as almost traitorous.

This hungry search for names in the Epstein files is beginning to have a definite McCarthy stink to it. Perhaps no names should be made public until the Justice Department — or whoever — actually ...

Donald Trump’s return to the White House has plunged Washington into upheaval and anxiety, bringing loyalty tests and other efforts to purge government employees. This climate of fear recalls the ...

Then U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin testifying against the U.S. Army during the Army-McCarthy hearings in Washington, D.C., June 9, 1954. McCarthy stands before a map which charts Communist ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE - Actress Lee Grant arrives with her husband Joe Feury to a screening of "The Company" at the Paris Theater in New York, Dec.

In 1954, American broadcast journalist Edward R. Murrow said, “No one man can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.” It was not too long ago that the second Red Scare and the ...

Penn is motioning to dismiss the lawsuit alleging “McCarthyism” filed by a group of faculty members last month. On April 3, Seth Waxman – the lawyer representing the University — requested a ...

Sign up for Forwarding the News, the Forward’s morning newsletter with all the news and analysis that matters to American Jews each day. Red Scare: Blacklists ...

In theory, it should be possible to oppose the Israeli military actions in Gaza, and defend the rights of campus protesters, without descending into anti-Jewish tropes. In reality, not so much. Even ...

At the height of McCarthyism in the early 1950s, Jewish community councils across the country threw out a group: the Jewish People’s Fraternal Order, a subsidiary of the International Workers Order. A ...