A century of government persuasion shows how propaganda has shifted from broad wartime messaging to highly targeted digital ...

It was the combination of her voice—a kind of chipper monotone—and the patriotic theme music that gave the lie to the words that were actually coming out of Kayleigh McEnany’s mouth. “Thank you for ...

This article explores the propaganda techniques developed since the birth of the field in WWI. It advises how businesses can make the best use of these techniques—ethically and honestly—to grow and ...

Consider the date June 4, 1989. In Poland, they held partially free elections. Street protests followed calling for free speech, due process and democracy. Well, those protests spread and eventually ...

WHAT is propaganda, as conceived at present by some of the European nations, but the mark of a psychosis, an attempt to compensate for a feeling of inferiority? Propaganda has been compared with ...

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“Why We Fight” is a series of seven documentary films commissioned by the United States government to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later they were shown ...

“If you can’t find the sucker at the poker table,” goes the saying, “you’re it.” Extrapolating that axiom to the present political moment, we may say: “If you don’t hear much about propaganda, that’s ...

Propaganda has a bad name. It is what repressive regimes use to glorify their leaders, motivate their citizens and demonise their enemies. It is about lies and distortion, manipulation and ...