Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. “Have you no sense of decency, sir, at long last? Have you left no sense of decency?” That vivid imprecation, one of the most ...

In 1954, a Boston lawyer named Joseph Welch was hired by the Army to be its chief counsel before a Senate committee that was hunting communists. Senator Joe McCarthy, a Wisconsin Republican, chaired ...

Frederick Fisher is a name many won’t recognize, but the incident he sparked in 1954 is widely attributed for bringing down one of the biggest political bullies of the last century, Sen. Joseph ...

We need to ask the question asked by Joseph N. Welch of U.S. Sen. Joseph McCarthy. I was watching television in 1954 when Welch, then the attorney for the U.S. Army, asked Sen. McCarthy, “Have you no ...

Can nothing stop President Donald Trump? Despite widespread opposition, Trump continues his blustering, unchecked by the usual guardrails of American politics. He’s attacking Venezuela, then ...

Keith Laue of Primghar, Iowa, stands at Welch Avenue, named for his great uncle, Joseph Nye Welch, who was raised in the home that appears in the background. Joseph Welch, a native of Primghar, is ...