Tom Bowen is a senior editor who loves adventure games and RPGs. He's been playing video games for several decades now and writing about them professionally since 2020. Although he dabbles in news 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 ...

It turns out a little brainwashing on a regular basis might be good for you. That’s because during your waking hours, your brain is accumulating waste from all the work it’s doing, and it needs to be ...

Harvard historian Rebecca Lemov on the history of brainwashing and its implications today. Radiolab is an award-winning podcast that explores the edge where science, philosophy and human experience ...