A term coined in 1950, McCarthyism described the escapades of Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy of Wisconsin (1908–1957). It was later applied to the broader excesses that characterized anti-Communism in America during the Cold War...

Despite the fact that Americans pride themselves on constitutional protections for free speech, there have been many attempts to limit speech in the United States. Beginning in 1789 with the First Sedition Act, Congress has passed laws banning diverse...

McCarthyism is the term describing a period of intense anti-Communist suspicion in the United States that lasted roughly from the late 1940s to the late 1950s. This period is also referred to as the Second Red Scare, and coincided with increased fears...

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 the late Sen. Joe McCarthy, who never let the facts...

The Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-25-2005 McCarthyism redux -- Congressman tries to intimidate scientists Date: 07-25-2005, Monday Section: OPINION Edtion: All Editions Biographical: JOE BARTON THE Texas Republican who heads the House Energy and Commerce Committee is using his chairmanship to...

Cuba characterized American filmmaker Michael Moore as a victim of censorship and the U.S. trade embargo as it reported Friday on a U.S. Treasury Department probe of his March visit here for his upcoming health-care documentary, "Sicko."Moore took the trip, for a segment in the...

Milo Radulovich, the Air Force Reserve lieutenant championed by Edward R. Murrow when the military threatened to decommission him during the anti-communist crackdown of the 1950s, has died. He was 81.Radulovich died Monday in Vallejo, Calif., after complications from a stroke, family members said. He...

Essay discussing McCarthyism.

Describes the communist activities or perceived activities that occured after World War II and how the United States dealt with them.