Dara Lind:

In general, Americans think large societal issues are getting way worse than they actually are.

Alan Jacobs:

The more deeply embedded a person is in biker culture, the more he exists in a kind of parallel dimension, an alternate moral universe with its own laws and mores. That universe is a territorial shame-and-honor culture ...

Aamena Alshamsi et al:

Communication patterns of urban areas exhibit homophilous behavior. More precisely, happy urban areas tend to interact with other happy areas more than they interact with unhappy areas. Similarly, unhappy urban areas tend to interact with other unhappy areas more than they interact with happy areas.

Alene Tchekmedyian:

A Burbank man was charged Tuesday with punching a 78-year-old Costco shopper who confronted him about taking too many Nutella waffles from a sample cart, authorities said. If convicted, he faces up to 11 years in state prison.