• ‘The Vow’ gives horrific look inside the Nxivm sex cult that branded women

    ‘The Vow’ gives horrific look inside the Nxivm sex cult that branded women

    For 20 years, thousands of eager adults signed up for personal and professional development classes through a little-known upstate New York company blandly called Executive Success Programs, or ESP. Started in 1998, the lessons — beginning at five-day sessions — taught students to change habitual behaviors, reject needless fear and gain full control over their …
  • BTS star Suga apologizes for using Jonestown massacre leader Jim Jones’ voice in song

    BTS star Suga apologizes for using Jonestown massacre leader Jim Jones’ voice in song

    The management company for BTS star Suga released a formal apology after social media backlash to the South Korean rapper’s use of cult leader Jim Jones’ voice on his new mixtape. In 1978, Jones notoriously had 918 of his followers — 304 of them children — commit mass suicide by drinking cyanide-dosed Flavor Aid at …