“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a ...

“We all have an idea of what constitutes a cult,” writes author Jane Borden in “Cults Like Us – Why Doomsday Thinking Drives America” (One Signal Publishers). “The word cult conjures a mental picture: ...

Trump's followers have embraced so many absurd, illogical contradictions they have no way back to reality. Do we?

Although they exert robust psychological control, cults do their utmost to appear warm and welcoming, especially to individuals who feel isolated and long for acceptance. Individuals on the autism ...

Thousands of groups known as cults have arisen over history. But most cults claim not to be cults, and many people involved might not even be aware they are in one. So how do cults lure people in?

Journalist Borden (I Totally Meant to Do That) argues that since its genesis, the U.S. has had a unique propensity for doomsday cults. She surveys this American predilection from its earliest ...

this documentary tells the story of American capitalism over 150 years: From Rockefeller to present day plutocrats, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Steve Jobs, via the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the ...

More recently, she became interested in learning how brands that use the same tactics as cults work, succeed, and then ultimately fail. Einstein soon discovered she wasn’t the first one to ...

Netflix’s chilling new thriller series Devil In Ohio tells the story of a mysterious young woman who escapes from a satanic cult in small-town America. But if there’s any show guaranteed to ...