Journalist Edward Hunter was the first to sound the alarm. “Brain-washing Tactics Force Chinese Into Ranks of Communist Party,” blared his headline in the Miami Daily News in September 1950. In the ...

"An electric baton to the back of the head" - a former inmate described conditions at a secret camp to the BBC Leaked documents detail for the first time China's systematic brainwashing of hundreds of ...

For more on the Patty Hearst case, watch “The Radical Story of Patty Hearst” at 9 p.m. ET Sundays on CNN. Steven Hassan was a college junior in the mid-1970s when he was recruited into the Unification ...

‘Nxivm: How a Sex Cult Leader Seduced and Programmed His Followers,” reads the New York Times headline. “Former Nxivm members testified they were brainwashed into being branded and assigned to have ...

The settlement is remembered in the phrase 'drinking the Kool-Aid', after over 900 people died there in 1978 after drinking poison-laced punch (Rex Features) Nearly 40 years ago, my two sisters, ...

Brainwashing is the kind of thing that never happens to you; it’s always what you accuse someone else of. No one likes to be called out on their bullshit, of course, and it’s a rare soul indeed who ...

In a case of uncanny timing, Jen Senko’s prescient documentary The Brainwashing of My Dad arrives to recount the rise of right-wing cable news and conservative talk radio through a relatable personal ...

Since well before Donald Trump’s election, Fox News has served as one of his movement’s most powerful and effective propaganda outlets. In numerous ways both large and small, Fox News has mainstreamed ...

Guilt trips, subliminal messages, white lies — all parents have done it. But Khloé Kardashian just took it one step further. She admitted to brainwashing her kids, and we can’t stop laughing.

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