While politically powerful for Trump, moral panics are evidence of American weakness. They signal acute societal insecurities that provide an opportunity for external enemies to amplify racism ...

including moral panic and digital culture. She argues that youth are no longer influenced by just family or schoolmates as in the past, but by online communities now as well. “Yes, there’s ...

Caught in the maw of vague laws, government overreach, and moral panic, art museums have become the latest battleground in an escalating assault on cultural institutions. A quarter-century later ...

According to an accompanying statement from his "Widespread Panic Family," the band was born the night of Nance's first show. Need a break? Play the USA TODAY Daily Crossword Puzzle. The statement ...

He was asked by an interviewer about rising Athens rock act Widespread Panic, with whom Sandlin was working on the band’s self-titled album. “There’s a trend of getting back to real music ...

Following such heady fare, even Thursday’s second keynote, by the courageous Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen, could not fully maintain the moral panic that Haidt, Twenge and their fellow ...

It was just one of many torments the city’s residents have faced since they became the unwilling subjects of a racist moral panic. This is not the first time serious threats have spawned out of ...

But that’s not what it was about at all. The moral panic over a scene of drag queens feasting at the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics set off a firestorm of outrage from religious ...

“Indeed, plenty of coverage of Lewis and Winnett has compared US and UK journalistic standards in the present tense even though much of it relates to things that happened 15 or more years ago. This is ...

Will Lewis’s ethical imbroglio has led to caricatures of British editors. But the Washington Post publisher should be held accountable as a powerful news executive—not a national stereotype ...

But later, when we realize that people kind of lost their minds, we retrospectively call it a “moral panic.” There have been countless moral panics. In my lifetime, elites freaked out over ...

This is a phenomenon known as moral panic; new media or technology touches off an extreme fear reaction by older generations, including policymakers. These past panics can seem self-evidently silly.