Trump, he realized, is essentially the latest incarnation of Joseph McCarthy, the Wisconsin senator from the 1950s who leveraged national anxieties about communism to brutalize his political enemies.

In February 1950, McCarthy gave a Lincoln Day address in Wheeling, West Virginia. He claimed that over 200 communists held jobs at the State Department.

Joe McCarthy in the 1950s, when he roused public alarm about alleged communists in the US federal government, particularly the State Department and the US Army. Lippmann warned about a malady of ...

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 ...

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 ...

Notorious home senator - Outagamie County has the mostly unwelcome honor of producing one of US history's most notorious politicians, Joe McCarthy. The senator catapulted to fame in 1950 by ...

WASHINGTON, March 8, 1950 (UP) - Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis., testified today that a former U.S. woman representative to the United Nations has been affiliated with 28 Communist front ...

Kate Quinn’s fast-paced novel “The Briar Club” serves up murder, homey recipes, a talking house with attitude, 1950s-era feminists in Washington, D.C., and the specter of Sen. Joe McCarthy ...

In order to counter a scheduled appearance at their campus by the Communist-baiting Wisconsin Senator Joe McCarthy, students at the University of Wisconsin-Madison invited Brandeis Professor Max ...

Launching with three powerful narratives: Joseph McCarthy, whose anti-communist crusade terrorized 1950s America; media titan William Randolph Hearst, the newspaper mogul whose empire shaped ...

Senator Joseph McCarthy (right) and Senator Karl Mundt (left) being interviewed by the media after initial discussions in the 36 days of the Army-McCarthy hearings in the Senate McCarthy’s most ...