Sign up for The Decision, a newsletter featuring coverage of the 2024 race and what comes next. The revision of January 6 among many Republicans is alarming. It is ...

The "revision of Jan. 6 among many Republicans is alarming," but it is "also a powerful example of how the internet has warped our political reality," say Charlie Warzel and Mike Caulfield. The ...

Brainwashing doesn’t always look dramatic; it often employs subtle tactics to bypass critical thinking and reshape beliefs and identities. Indeed, various models have been proposed over the years to ...

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 ...

Brainwashing doesn’t always look dramatic; it often employs subtle tactics to bypass critical thinking and reshape beliefs and identities. Indeed, various models have been proposed over the years to ...