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Focuses on what is probably the Reverend Billy Graham's final crusade. Graham's plan to preach in Flushing Meadows, Queens, New York; View of many pastors and academics that Graham comes to a drastically changed city; New York's growing population of evangelical Christians; Signs of change throughout the city; How New York pastors urged Graham to come; Why defining an evangelical can be problematic; Comments of sociologists; Reference to Graham's visit to New York in 1957, which catapulted him to national prominence; Overview of churches in New York; Discussion of the emergence of evangelical faith in the city.

Profiles Devah Pager, a young sociologist from Honolulu, Hawaii. Academic background; Achievements of Pager as a sociologist; Interest of Pager on prison studies.

If surveys of Occupy Wall Street supporters conducted last fall still hold true, the crowds of protesters expected to turn out Tuesday for May Day events across the country will most likely skew male, young, white, college educated, underpaid, and thoroughly disgusted with the American political system. But the crowds may also be notably heavy on another demographic cohort: notebook-wielding social scientists hoping to get a more precise understanding of the nebulously organized individuals marching under the banner ''We are the 99 percent.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Discusses how political anger can literally make you heartsick. Issue of treating patients with political rage problems; Fury of many Democrats following the 2004 presidential election; Comments of psychologists and anger specialists; Finding by medical studies that anger can lead to heart disease; Ways to deal with negative emotion, including deep breathing; How anger may feel justified and to a degree righteous after a political loss; Why anger specialists believe Democrats ought to redirect their rage and negative emotion toward constructive action.

Discusses how revenge reflects a biologically rooted sense of justice. View of researchers that acts of personal vengeance are primed in the genes; Role of the brain in inspiring socially beneficial acts of retaliation and punishment as well as damaging ones; Comments of psychologist Michael McCullough on understanding retaliatory acts; Reference to Alexander Hamilton's fatal duel with Aaron Burr on the Hudson River; Implications for stable communities; Overview of the research; Views of sociologists and philosophers; Ways that some people exact revenge on themselves; How researchers have found ways people can peaceably satiate their hunger for revenge.