Joseph McCarthy

How Angels in America put Roy Cohn into the definitive story of AIDS.

It's the transatlantic commentariat’s favorite political put-down. It’s also historically illiterate.

It's not as new as it seems.

Decades before Watergate, mobsters helped turn hearings into must-see television.

American has long been suspicious of “elites”, but just who they are has changed a lot over the last 200 years.

Remembering the switchboard operator who listened in on Cohn’s calls with Nancy Reagan, Gloria Vanderbilt, Carlo Gambino, and Trump.

If you're wondering how Trump happened, all you have to do is let Pat Buchanan beguile you with a history no one else can tell.

President Trump’s criticisms of government workers have something in common with Joe McCarthy’s.

How Joseph McCarthy henchman Roy Cohn became Donald Trump’s mentor.

Patsy Sims reflects on her interview with the man who was instrumental in the death of three black men in Mississippi.

Pete Seeger, William F. Buckley, Jr., and public history.

Culture-shocked Americans in the 1960s were all too happy to take directions from the John Birch Society: take an extreme right and drive forever.

When McCarthy stalked the groves of academe.