The past few days in Israel have been filled with heart wrenching euphoria mixed with cautious optimism, and foreboding. After two years in unspeakable conditions and captivity, Hamas has released all ...

Amid the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine, the former is re-educating, Russifying, and militarising Ukrainian children across 210 camps, a recently published report has claimed. The report, ...

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 ...

Harvard historian Rebecca Lemov on the history of brainwashing and its implications today. Radiolab is an award-winning podcast that explores the edge where science, philosophy and human experience ...

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 ...

A long-running nationwide brainwashing campaign, conducted in plain sight, now comes to its deadly culmination. The predictable consequence—reviving a preventable childhood disease in the U.S.—is at ...

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.

Over a billion people use Google Maps each month to navigate the world. From traffic detours to locating restaurants, it's become a default way of how we experience and interact with the world. But ...

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 ...

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) has accused PBS and NPR of “brainwashing children” and making them transgender ahead of a congressional hearing with the CEOs of both broadcasters. “I’m looking ...

From Communist reeducation camps to manipulative media algorithms, mind control is a real and often remarkably effective tool, contends historian Lemov (World as Laboratory) in this trenchant study.

Susan Dieleman receives funding as the Jarislowsky Chair in Trust and Political Leadership at the University of Lethbridge. Over a billion people use Google Maps to help them navigate their world ...