A MEMBER of the House prosecution team on Tuesday said the impeachment of Vice President Sara Duterte was not a witch hunt, ...

First, though, a word about an actual witch hunt: the 1692 Salem witch trials, which focused on allegations of witchcraft — including the use of magic to torture villagers — and ended with the ...

I went on a witch hunt the other day. I took a while, but I eventually found a witch named Stephanie on the Southside. Let me backtrack. When I came to work Monday morning, going on a witch hunt … ...

They're the hunters, not the hunted.In making these comments, Allen joins a host of powerful men who have used the term “witch hunt” to preemptively absolve themselves of wrongdoing. This past ...

In premodern times, a witch hunt was the search for anyone "working with the devil to subvert God's sovereignty," Demos says. Today, that definition has grown less religious but no less urgent.

In most other parts of Europe, though, women were predominantly the victims of witch hunts. One source estimates that about 80% of people executed for witchcraft were women.

President Trump’s repetition of words like “witch hunt” could have a psychological effect on Americans—say it enough, and people might start to believe it.

A detail from the painting “Witch Hill/ The Salem Martyr” by Thomas Satterwhite Nobel, 1869. A woman, found guilty of witchcraft, walks to the gallows with the hangman and judges.

The term “witch hunt” has renewed cultural and political resonance, largely because it’s one of President Trump’s preferred strategies for deflecting criticism and mobilizing his base ...