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 ...

For the first 15 years of her life, Daniella Mestyanek Young’s entire world was The Family. Born to a mom who’d gotten pregnant with her at 14, Young lived with more than 100 people in a commune in ...

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 ...

Failed 2016 presidential candidate Hillary Clinton called supporters of former President Donald Trump “cult members” who require “formal deprogramming” while explaining in a CNN interview why ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hillary Clinton; Trump Rally Photo illustration by Salon/Getty images In 2016, then Democratic Party presidential nominee Hillary ...

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 — ...

Republicans may have their leadership woes, but Democrats have Hillary Clinton — even now. She holds no office, but the former first lady, senator, secretary of state and presidential nominee still ...

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 ...

See more of our trusted coverage when you search. Prefer Newsweek on Google to see more of our trusted coverage when you search. Supporters of former President Donald Trump and his Make America Great ...