Our brains evolved with a need to belong and a dependence on trusted others to co-create reality. This dependence puts us all at risk for gaslighting.

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How coercive control restructures attachment, exploits social systems, and traps victims in conditions that mimic consent but are grounded in domination.

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Despite the diversity of government and social structures ... and used to consolidate power and increase dependence, while ox-drawn plows and other technologies further increased output, freeing some ...

Joshua Oppenheimer’s films show the political value of empathy in our polarized age. The film director Joshua Oppenheimer has ...

Despite the diversity of government and social structures, every country today faces social and political tensions tied to concentrated and unaccountable power in the hands of national elites. The ...

Final Report presents itself as a decisive blueprint for an inclusive and harmonious state. It invokes the rhetoric of trust, ...

The term civilization has long been a central concept in history, sociology, and philosophy, yet its meaning is far from fixed: it depends heavily on perspective, culture, values, and what people ...

Even normal, totally sane people are falling victim to this on a smaller scale. It’s really rough that this technology began ...

A wave of AI users presenting in states of psychological distress gave birth to an unofficial diagnostic label. Experts say ...