A Lunch ‘N Learn with Emily Thiroux Threatt and Allen Klein    After the death of their spouses, both Emily and Allen discovered that writing about their love and their experiences provided them with the most comfort. Wanting to share with the world what helped them most, Emily wrote Loving and Living Your Way Through Grief, and Allen wrote The […]

In Stories Are Weapons, Newitz traces the way disinformation, propaganda, and violent threats—the essential tool kit for psychological warfare—have evolved from military weapons deployed against foreign adversaries into tools in domestic culture wars. America’s secret weapon has long been coercive storytelling. Now, through a weapons-transfer program long unacknowledged, psyops have found their way into the hands […]