During Senator Joe McCarthy’s communist witch hunts in the 1950s, he decided to go after the U.S. Army. The army hired Joseph Welch as its lawyer to make its case during what is known as the ...

McCarthyism hearkens back to a dark time in American history. The term has entered political nomenclature to describe ...

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This famous question was posed to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 by attorney Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings. It is widely credited with helping ...

I am old enough (barely) to remember the era when Joseph McCarthy declared that there were communists within the government, the military, and Hollywood. He claimed that he was going to ferret them ...

In February 1950, Wisconsin U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy began a four-year crusade of baseless accusations against alleged communists in government, academia and the entertainment industry. It was an era ...

I remember watching the Army - McCarthy Hearings on live TV, now 71 years ago. Suddenly, the nationwide watching audience saw Joseph Welsh, the U.S. Army lawyer, look directly at McCarthy and say ...

On his first trip to the Kennedy Center after naming himself chairman of its board last month, Donald Trump uncharacteristically mused a bit about his childhood and his early piano-pecking, claiming ...

Thomas Demetrio is a Chicago lawyer who looks like he just stepped out of one of Irvin S. Cobb’s folksy “Old Judge Priest” stories for the Saturday Evening Post. You could also say he resembles ...