Director Jonathan Demme fiddles with the classics again. After a remake of "Charade," he now offers up "The Manchurian Candidate" for a nervous, post Sept. 11 era. The original 1962 film featured ...

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Men have always fought for control over the minds of their fellows, but it is only recently—largely because of the furor over brainwashing—that the methods of gaining such control have been openly and ...

For more on the Patty Hearst case, watch “The Radical Story of Patty Hearst” at 9 p.m. ET Sundays on CNN. Steven Hassan was a college junior in the mid-1970s when he was recruited into the Unification ...

During the Korean War, Americans became obsessed with mind control. Following the bizarre confessions of American POWs in North Korea, in which captured military personnel admitted to heinous (and ...

Why are voters mindlessly destroying our democracy? Supporting communism instead of having freedom is factual proof that there are naive voters voting in our elections. Presently, government is ...

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