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

This city knows how to do big hearings — even Titanic ones. Dramatic congressional hearings are something of a Washington art form, a rite of democracy carefully crafted for the cameras. Suspense is ...

Army Counsel Joseph Welch looks angry and waves a hand as he demands that Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wisc.), not try to serve as both witness and judge in the McCarthy-Army row, June 16, 1954. Their ...