It took Donald Trump, who in many ways emulates Joseph McCarthy’s witch hunts, to undo something that the University of California should never have done in the first place.

Consequences will be felt immediately at Columbia, where, for example, an academic department that drew conservative scrutiny will face stringent oversight.

The academy did not fight McCarthyism. It contributed to it.” That was historian Ellen Schrecker’s devastating conclusion in ...

The Trump administration's war of words with French officials over the Statue of Liberty and the rejection of a French ...

The University of California system and Princeton this week joined more than a dozen top schools – including Harvard, ...

The North’s outrage is linked to a questionnaire sent by the Washington-based Office of Management and Budget looking into ...

Donald Trump is a singular figure in United States political history — an elitist at war with the country’s elite, a beneficiary of the American commercial system who is resentful of ...

Joseph McCarthy. The Great Depression had shocked millions of Americans into action. Between 1929 and 1933, nearly 9,000 banks failed, manufacturing output dropped by 30 percent, and a quarter of ...

The events are based on traditional mining techniques and include jackleg drilling, track laying, hand mucking, panning, hand drilling and surveying.

Since it's been over 70 years since Sen. Joseph McCarthy used his power as chairman of a Senate investigative committee to ...

Mahmoud Khalil — a 30-year-old Columbia University student — has been held in a federal detention center in Louisiana for, ...