A Woman Alone in a Dark Parking Lot

Steven Hassan is a licensed mental health counselor in Massachusetts who has built a career on a single claim: that he can identify “destructive cults” using a diagnostic overarching highly simplistic completely subjective tool he created called the BITE model. He has applied this confirmation-bias

In June 2025, two women were convicted of forced labor conspiracy in the Eastern District of New York. No one was physically restrained. No one was threatened with violence. No substantive crime of forced labor was charged. Nine out of 35,000 former participants in a meditation and wellness company

The government wants Rachel Cherwitz sentenced for a crime she was never charged with, never tried for, and never convicted of.

Rachel Cherwitz is Nicole Daedone’s co-defendant, who is currently incarcerated at Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn while they await sentencing.

As the journalist who broke the NXIVM branding story and played a role in exposing Keith Raniere’s criminal enterprise, I want to explain the role of Roger Stone and NXIVM.

“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” — George Orwell, 1984

In June 2025, a Brooklyn federal jury convicted Nicole Daedone, 58, co-founder of OneTaste, on conspiracy to commit forced labor.

For five years, Danesh Noshirvan used TikTok to target individuals, publishing personal information and harassment campaigns.

By Rebecca Martin

Firouz Shahbazi:

This is Part #3 of the Danesh Chronicles

Last week, U.S. District Judge Paul L. Friedman denied the Department of Energy’s motion to dismiss Frank Rose’s lawsuit.

There are some0 in the media and in politics who are asking, during “Davos” in the Swiss Alps that hosts the World Economic Forum (WEF) annual meeting every January, will Radovan Vitek, the man whom Forbes ranks as the 550th richest in the world, (and accused of defrauding elderly US pensioners) fin

Nancy Salzman’s Rehabilitation Tour

On the evening of December 12, 2011, four lawyers and two judges assembled inside a small conference room at the Hilton Garden Inn in State College, Pennsylvania.

How Frank Fina and Joseph McGettigan’s Partner Ended Up Controlling $20 Million That Belonged to the Man Whose Testimony Sent Jerry Sandusky to Prison

Nancy Salzman, the co-founder and former president of NXIVM, who spent two years in federal prison for racketeering conspiracy, has given her ‘first in-depth interview since being released from prison’ on a new podcast series called Mind Games.

Two Accusers. Same Weekends. Same Bed. Same Three Years. Both Stories Cannot Be True.

The only Black reporter trying to cover the exoneration of two Black men wrongfully prosecuted by John Flynn’s uncle was barred at the door.

I’m not seeing brown.

In 1692, the colony of Massachusetts killed twenty people for witchcraft. The evidence was overwhelming. Confessions, eyewitness testimony, and young accusers whose bodies convulsed theatrically in the presence of the accused.

How a TikTok bully treid to destroy an immigrant physician’s reputation for asking a question

900 Victims. Zero Prosecutions. The Diocese of Buffalo and the DA Who Protected It

Ryan Flynn was moved out of Delta unit.