In the 1950s the right wing attacked liberals as being communists. In 2005 Karl Rove has attacked liberals as being therapists. Thus is born a kinder and gentler form of McCarthyism. Named after ...

This second iteration of McCarthyism is hurting many more people, businesses, and the country as a whole than in the 1950s. Janelle Heck, Millcreek. Submit a letter to the editor.

In the early days of the Cold War, the notorious "McCarthyism" emerged in the U.S. Joe McCarthy, a self-serving and opportunistic political figure, exploited human vulnerabilities, stoked anti ...

Muslims and McCarthyism A witch-hunt on one side, denial on the other, as the threat of home-grown terrorism rises. Mar 10th 2011 | Share. IS A new Joe McCarthy strutting his stuff up on Capitol Hill?

Part of the anti-communist mobilization known as McCarthyism, the bill created a Subversive Activities Control Board, the organization that initially subpoenaed the organizational records from Green.

On Feb. 9, 1950, the junior senator from Wisconsin, Joseph McCarthy, gave a radio speech in Wheeling, W.Va., in which he charged that . . . I can barely bring myself to type the next words -- not ...

Have faith, history will repeat itself once again, and this movement will fade away as quickly as McCarthyism, writes John Piazza of Highland Heights in a letter to the editor.

Almost 50 years ago, in April of 1954, Vannevar Bush testified before a government review board in defense of J. Robert Oppenheimer. It was the heyday of McCarthyism, and Oppenheimer, an atomic ...

Because “McCarthyism” has been a pejorative term for so many years, it would be comforting to assume that the American public and its political leaders are inoculated against a revival.

With Sino-U.S. relations strained amid a rapidly escalating trade war, and months after the U.S. State Department began restricting visas for Chinese graduate students in “sensitive research ...

I’ve often wondered whether McCarthyism could ever find a foothold in Hollywood or America again. I didn’t think so, until now. That possibility was always present in the minds of the ...