The history of propaganda helps us understand our current reality.

The science journalist Annalee Newitz’s new book Stories Are Weapons is a 21st-century update of the genre pioneered by Edward Hunter.

Propaganda: The Art of Selling Lies asks the question: why are we so easily seduced by propaganda? This film traces the history of the art of persuasion, from the remote past up to our present, at ...

The propaganda campaign to promote Communist Party history is the largest mass-education drive since the Mao era. Efforts to forge what Xi calls a “correct outlook on history” come ahead of ...

This paper analyzes the propaganda campaign orchestrated by the Russian authorities with the aim of promoting a version of the country’s history for political purposes. This version puts the accent on ...

Words matter, and I am offended when elected leaders show contempt for the truth and peddle obvious propaganda, and even lie ...

Russia’s war against Ukraine is pressing into its fifth month – despite several rounds of failed peace talks, and Western countries’ issuing severe economic sanctions against Russia. The war ...

This North Korean Art Is More Than Propaganda Socialist Realism isn’t just pictures of happy workers and brave soldiers.