Joe McCarthy was famously undone by the rhetorical questions at a 1954 congressional hearing: “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” If the same queries ...

A few days ago, I wrote about the famous takedown of Senator Joe McCarthy in 1954 by the attorney Joseph Welch, which began McCarthy’s downward political slide. Welch said, “Until this moment, Senator ...

While much of the focus on President Donald Trump’s comments after Rob Reiner’s death was justifiably on how outrageous and just plain cruel they were, two other Trump characteristics revealed in his ...

“Have you no sense of decency, sir?” This famous question was posed to U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy in 1954 by attorney Joseph Welch during the Army-McCarthy hearings. It is widely credited with helping ...