(AP) – The watch towers, double-locked doors and video surveillance in the Chinese camps are there “to prevent escapes.” Uighurs and other minorities held inside are scored on how well they speak the ...

Michael Savage declared that a sensitivity training program for San Francisco police detectives on transgender issues is “sort of like toilet training for adults,” and described the program as a ...

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 cosmetics company that spent 900,000 yuan (US$126,000) hiring a firm to “brainwash” its staff to boost sales, sought a refund after the initiative failed. The company in Hangzhou, in the eastern ...

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 ...