Recent calls to deprogram QAnon conspiracy followers are steeped in discredited notions about brainwashing. As popularly imagined, brainwashing is a coercive procedure that programs new long-term ...

Michael Schulson is a contributing editor for Undark. His work has also been published by Aeon, NPR, Pacific Standard, Scientific American, Slate, and Wired, among other publications. This story ...

In 2016, then Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary Clinton said that some of Donald Trump’s followers were a “basket of deplorables”: You know, to just be grossly generalistic, you could put ...

Nearly two years into a deprogramming regimen that has allowed her to reaccess her individuality and "laugh again," India Oxenberg — who tells her own story in Starz's Seduced: Inside the NXIVM Cult — ...

Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton called for a "formal deprogramming" for many supporters of former President Donald Trump during a new CNN interview. Discussing the recent upheaval on Capitol ...

Conservatives recoiled Friday at former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s recent suggestion that there should be a "formal deprogramming" of supporters of former President Donald Trump. After ...

After confronting the Vietnam War and the torture images of Abu Ghraib in his most recent films, Oscar-winning documentary maker Errol Morris turns to a 1977 scandal involving North Carolina beauty ...