Donald Trump is playing the role of Joseph McCarthy. The very institutions he is assaulting must challenge him.

Greetings from the eye of the storm. Is the time right for a second American Revolution? The first broke out 250 Aprils ago in Lexington and Concord. Let’s conjure up Paul Revere’s midnight ride in ...

Trump learned his lessons well from McCarthy’s counsel, Roy Cohn (Trump’s mentor). McCarthy ruined lives during the 1950s Red Scare. Trump never cracks a book but has a peasant cunning that ...

In his latest book, journalist and historian Clay Risen explores how the House Un-American Activities Committee and Senator ...

Pusey was the president of Harvard during the Red Scare in the 1950s, when red-baiting Senator ... In fact, he had the very same guide as the senator — Roy Cohn, McCarthy’s ingenious and ...

Name-checking events from the singer/songwriter’s birth year of 1949 through the following four decades, the lyrics include such 1950s’ refs as Joseph Stalin, Roy Cohn, the Communist Bloc ...

It is our fate — largely our own doing — to live at a time when the arc is going backward. Backward, perhaps, to the Gilded Age of the 1890s. The president likes to invoke William McKinley, for ...

One of the Senate freshmen was Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin, who didn’t make much of a splash until he delivered a Lincoln Day speech on February 9, 1950 ... associates, Roy Cohn and G.

Feulner Jr., and lawyer Roy Cohn, who had advised Senator Joseph McCarthy, Republican of Wisconsin, during the notorious “Red Scare” anticommunist inquests in the 1950s. Mr. Carlson fit well ...