It wasn’t so long ago that respectable psychologists didn’t really talk about “brainwashing.” The term had the slightly kitschy flavor of other Cold War embarrassments—C.I.A. spy cats and ...

The term “brainwashing” was first used in 1950 by an American journalist — who had worked in wartime intelligence, and later with the CIA — to describe a technique introduced by the Chinese to ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) This post is an adapted except from my Substack ...

It turns out a little brainwashing on a regular basis might be good for you. That’s because during your waking hours, your brain is accumulating waste from all the work it’s doing, and it needs to be ...

WASHINGTON – Russia is holding tens of thousands of kidnapped Ukrainian children in a sprawling, "potentially unprecedented" network of more than 200 militarization and "brainwashing" camps, according ...

Mr. Edsall contributes a weekly column from Washington, D.C., on politics, demographics and inequality. The Trump administration has enabled a small network of high-tech oligarchs to determine a vast ...

FNC's Greg Gutfeld commented on the Minneapolis school shooter's rejection of trans identity on Thursday's edition of "The Five." "In this manifesto that this creep wrote, he said he was tired of ...

In Orwell's novel, members of the Ingsoc party must accept paradoxical slogans such as "war is peace". Source: Joel Frohlich (created with Midjourney) In George Orwell's novel 1984, the entire world ...