Brainwashing is often viewed as a Cold War relic—think '60s films like "The Manchurian Candidate" and "The IPCRESS File." But Rebecca Lemov, professor of the history of science, argues in her recently ...

Steven Hassan was a college junior in the mid-1970s when he was recruited into the Unification Church, a cult also known as the “Moonies.” Hassan said he quickly came to believe that Armageddon and ...

The contradiction between Republican outrage over Chinese access to children’s reading data and their silence on more immediate threats to Ohio’s children caught the attention of Today in Ohio podcast ...

‘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 ...

Oklahoma Sen. James Inhofe accused the Environmental Protection Agency Thursday of creating "propaganda" and "brainwashing" American children. "We are going to take all this stuff that comes out of ...

I don’t need one. But… like… I worked so hard today. I realllllly don’t need one. I walked to four classes though. That’s, like, 4 miles, right? Yea. I need ...

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 ...

Nearly 40 years ago, my two sisters, Carolyn Layton and Annie Moore, were among those who planned the mass deaths in Jonestown on Nov. 18, 1978. Part of a movement called Peoples Temple, which was led ...