“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 ...

The Pentagon suspended an official and launched an investigation after a report on anti-Israel posts made by the officer who ...

There are the Black elites and then there are the rest of us. Ibram X. Kendi is one of them. Despite his middle class upbringing and current vast material wealth, he has made a living out of ...

The most famous cults in American history are embedded in our cultural imagination. We’re fascinated by how they start, what it is about their leaders that is so enigmatic, and whether ...

American religion is hostile, cruel, cult-like, and weaponized." 19.Lastly: "Twelve weeks of maternity leave is considered generous, and only certain companies offer it. And I can't believe that ...

Journalists, scholars, and political observers have spent years attempting to parse what animates the MAGA base. While no ...

After the war, the cargo cult became a tradition ... because they have become synonymous. American conservatism would not have become what it is now — authoritarianism or fascism or Trumpism ...

Wherever one moves in American religious circles, one hears the refrain that the lively cults are making tremendous progress at the expense of listless Protestant churches. Hence, the impression ...

This cult discussion was a strange conversation ... I’d done well for a Norwegian American girl from South Dakota who could barely lead another in silent prayer. My parents thought our social ...

But that image couldn’t be further from the truth and in “Cults Like Us” Borden charts not just the murky history of cult ideologies in America, but how the country remains a breeding ground ...