Donald Trump is playing the role of Joseph McCarthy. The very institutions he is assaulting must challenge him.

For Democrats, the right answer to Trump’s reign of error isn’t to indulge in purity tests and fratricidal primary challenges ...

This heresy is not merely a hallucination emanating from ... Just look at what happened during the McCarthy era in the 1950s when the FBI was run by J. Edgar Hoover, a right-wing zealot, much ...

I want to give this argument its due. It’s not without merit. Optimal political strategy is usually to keep the focus on your opponent’s worst issues. For Donald Trump right now, it’s his ...

However, this administration is inches away from permanently sending Americans to a Central American maximum-security confinement center under McCarthy Era legislation ... Make no mistake, these ...

I n the unfolding battle between the Trump administration and Harvard University, we are witnessing the most important showdown between state power and college autonomy since 1816, when the New ...

That has not proved true for either Columbia University ... which preserves their academic freedom from government intrusion. During the McCarthy era, in Sweezy v. New Hampshire, the court ...

As a Jewish child growing up in the shadow of the Holocaust and the McCarthy era, the son of a union leader ... First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out — Because I was ...

found that more than three times as many Americans self-censor today than at the height of the McCarthy era. The free speech recession began at colleges, the places that most need free speech to ...

Kevin O’Connell told reporters quarterback J.J. McCarthy is "full go ... Because of what they’ve added in free agency, there’s not a sense of urgency to make a big splash.