Support for this podcast comes from Nature is the Solution, a podcast from the Nature Conservancy.

This show tells climate stories like a stubborn optimist because hope, innovation, and nature itself are key to solving the challenges ahead.

Follow on your favorite podcast app.

Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Marotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business.

In a recent episode, the show explores how artificial intelligence is transforming healthcare

and what that means for patients, providers, and the business of care.

Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview the episode.

WBUR Podcasts, Boston.

This is on point.

I'm Megna Chakra-Bardi. In 1950, Wisconsin Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy grabbed the public's attention with his allegations that hundreds of communists had infiltrated the State Department and other federal agencies. By 1953, McCarthy had become chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Investigations, where he shifted the committee's focus from investigating fraud and waste to hunting for communists.

He held scores of hearings and ruined thousands of lives.

By mid-1953, the panel's three Democrats resigned, and Republican senators stopped attending because so many of McCarthy's hearings were called on short notice or held away from Washington.

That left McCarthy and his chief counsel, Roy Cohn, to run the hearings largely by themselves.

And they were relentless and cruel to their

witnesses. Irvin Griswold, then dean of the Harvard Law School, described McCarthy as, quote,

judge, jury, prosecutor, castigator, and press agent, all in one, end quote. And by the way, as an aside, Roy Cohn later became a mob attorney

and represented Donald Trump for years before he became president. He said that he considered Trump

to be his best friend. Now, all of this serves as a critical backdrop to understand the events of June 9, 1954.

McCarthy had decided to take on the United States Army, claiming that there was lack

security at a top-secret military facility.

What followed was a three-month televised event known as the Army McCarthy hearings.

The Army hired Boston lawyer Joseph Welch.

...