What is the best tool for cult leaders to control other people? It’s the power of language. What do Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Jr., and Hitler have in common? They were all obsessively studied ...

The cult in question is of course the state Legislature.The anteroom to the committee-meeting room on the first floor to the annex has those swastikas in the floor. The room used to be part of the ...

A common test of belonging involves committing small crimes against the hated world beyond. Once a member commits an illegal act, the cult has evidence it can use to blackmail that member into ...

But while watching these documentaries, I was struck by what else these two cults had in common: the use of some pretty common and ordinary persuasion principles that we're all susceptible to.

This unquestioning submission to authority is a hallmark of cult behavior, where members view their leader’s word as law. 2.