[Bent Corydon and David Miscavige]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Although Scientology expends enormous effort to keep leader David Miscavige out of court, he did have to sit for depositions at least twice in 1990s lawsuits. We obtained a full […]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: As expected a local council voted yesterday to deny #Scientology a protest ban outside its UK headquarters. But what made it an even worse debacle for the church was that a common Scientology tactic […]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: Scientology has quietly been adding more ‘Ideal Missions’ in recent weeks, along with David Miscavige’s other ribbon-cutting ceremonies this year. But does it represent real expansion? [What is this Substack thing, […]

[Notorious antisemite Willis Carto spun wild theories about L. Ron Hubbard and Scientology]

 TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: From time to time, we get asked about a curious historical nugget: In the middle of a wild 1990s fight between Holocaust […]

[Joy Villa, right, with reclusive Scientology celebrity Connor Cruise]

TODAY AT SUBSTACK: If you’ve signed up for free emails at Substack, you will receive today’s feature story at your inbox: On May 14, Joy Villa announced publicly that she’d left Scientology and was turning her attention to exposing the organization’s abuses. She also had access to […]