The play “Conscience” from RKP Productions and Anchorage Community Theater opened on May 16 and runs through June 1st. The performance follows senator Joseph McCarthy’s abuses of power during the Red ...

The simple question that Army lawyer Joseph Welch posed to Senator Joseph McCarthy in 1954 -- "Have you no sense of decency?" -- helped end a witch hunt that was tearing the country in two.

George Clooney’s drama about straight-shooting newsman Edward R. Murrow exposing Senator Joseph McCarthy’s lies and cruelties draws clear parallels to Trump’s tyrannies. A Republican demagogue ...

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

The 1954 attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. Joe McCarthy, “Have you no sense of decency, sir?” Same can be asked of today's administration.

Larry Tye is the author of “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy” and “Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon.” It’s laudable when American politicians turn to America’s ...