Crowd psychology

New York City's ‘Little Italy’. Mulberry Street, Lower East Side, circa 1900

A brief history of America’s hostility to a previous generation of Mediterranean migrants — Italians

Justice

A wave of migrants from the Mediterranean meets a hostile reception from many Americans. The migrants are seen as alien in religion, culture, politics, law. So different in fact that some Americans argue that they can never be assimilated. They are the Italians, in the 1890s.

Do you ‘plank?’ Why the Internet Trend is Gaining Popularity

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Financial contagion

Global Politics
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Nicholas Christakis

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Nicholas Christakis

Health & Medicine
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Nicholas Christakis

Harvard medical sociologist Nicholas Christakis talks to Faith about his study about how conditions such as depression and obesity is contagious.

Rolling Stone: Army Uses Psy-Ops on US Senators

Writing for Rolling Stone, Michael Hastings says that the Army illegally ordered a team of soldiers to “manipulate visiting senators into providing more funding for the war.” The senators knew that they were going to be spun, says Hastings, but the question is to what degree this was appropriate or legal. This group was under […]