If Republicans get their way, McCarthyism will be back — and here to stay. Leading the race to the soggiest pits of ethical crud, as usual, President Donald Trump repeatedly calls Democratic Socialists of America-affiliated primary winners "hardcore, godless communists" after DSAers swept the New York elections last month. Ideologically, New York City Mayor Zohran...

Right-wing Republican Sen. Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, former Senate majority leader and key senior legislator, went missing for weeks. No one — including President Donald Trump and the governor of his home state — knew whether he was sick, wallowing in depression like a recently MIA congressman from New Jersey, on a wild incognito adventure,...