Childhood's end: Sweet, innocent Kevin McCarthy faces the flames Our hapless House speaker is like a dumbed-down Joe Biden, clinging to belief in a system that "doesn't work" ...

News about Joseph R. McCarthy, ... Larry Tye talks about his new biography of Joseph McCarthy, the senator whose name is synonymous with reckless accusation and fear-mongering.

Larry Tye is the author of “Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy.” The mythology of Sen. Joseph McCarthy — in fresh focus as the Broadway version of George Clooney’s ...