USC football makes a statement in routing Rutgers

• October 26, 2024

LOS ANGELES — As World Series shockwaves that spread from Chavez Ravine slowly settled in the second quarter, Dodgers first baseman Freddie Freeman’s walk-off grand slam five miles north setting off a thinned-out crowd at the Coliseum, USC’s Kyle Ford turned upfield on a crossing route and delivered his own dash of Los Angeles magic.

Six months earlier, the senior receiver – traitorous for a season, playing a year for UCLA after beginning his career as a Trojan – announced his return to USC with a simple proclamation: “My fault I was trippin.” His return east, though, had largely come up empty for seven games. But when opportunity struck Friday night against Rutgers, Ford seized it and didn’t trip, nabbing a pass from quarterback Miller Moss and breaking free in open turf.

Rutgers defensive back Bo Mascoe approached. Ford extended his right arm at his facemask. Mascoe went sprawling, and Ford kept churning, and flew skyward into the end zone a few steps later over another Rutgers defender. Two broken tackles. Touchdown.

Ten minutes remained in the second quarter. And it was, still, the hardest USC’s offense had to work all night.

The Trojans bludgeoned Rutgers from end to end Friday night, turning swaths of open turf into another victory for the West Coast on a momentous sports night for Los Angeles, downing the Scarlet Knights 42-20 at the Coliseum.

Steady-as-ever bellcow back Woody Marks provided the first punch, scoring three first-quarter touchdowns. Moss threw a constant flurry of jabs from kickoff to buzzer, finishing 20 of 28 for 308 yards. And sophomore receiver Makai Lemon provided the knockout, with 70-yard and 40-yard third-quarter catch-and-runs on the same crossing routes that confounded Rutgers all night long.

These Trojans returned home the Friday night of a short week, wounded physically and in ego after a handful of debilitating cross-country trips. Head coach Lincoln Riley, accepting blame with nowhere else to put it, needed a shining moment as a play-caller. Moss, calling Monday for critics to “keep that same energy,” needed a mistake-free night. And the program, most of all, needed to finish a football game, bungling away four close games into a 3-4 record.

“We’ve had some opportunities to separate in some games, and we haven’t,” Riley said Monday.

They separated Friday, as Ford separated from that second-quarter tackle. Separated, as Los Alamitos High product Lemon separated in the second half, finishing with 256 all-purpose yards in a true breakout of a catch-and-go day.

The hardest these Trojans had to strain ultimately came at the hands of defensive coordinator D’Anton Lynn, put in a highly unenviable position with a rash of injuries. Safety Kamari Ramsey, cornerbacks Jaylin Smith and Jacobe Covington, and nickel Greedy Vance Jr. all were scratched Friday, leaving USC down four erstwhile starters — and soon five, as defensive tackle Nate Clifton exited in the first quarter on an already-thin defensive line.

In the second quarter, after Ford’s get-off-me touchdown put USC up 21-3, Lynn threw a heavy dosage of soft coverage at the Scarlet Knights. Quarterback Athan Kaliakmanis entered Friday’s matchup commandeering one of the poorer passing attacks in the FBS, hauling in a 53% completion rate. But chunk-yardage cushions gave him sudden comfort, and Kaliakmanis marched Rutgers down the field on a pair of 22- and-15-yard completions before the Scarlet Knights’ Antwan Raymond punched it in to cut USC’s lead to two scores.

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And like so many other scripts before in this confounding 2024 season, USC came out of the second-half gates flat. Kaliakmanis, after missing a couple deep shots in the first half, hit on a 45-yard bomb to Dymere Miller and then a 25-yard touchdown strike to Christian Dremel. Suddenly, after a nifty two-point conversion, Rutgers had cut USC’s lead to a score, and another game dangled in the balance.

But Riley brought USC immediately back, throwing another crossing-route concept at Rutgers on a subsequent play, as Lemon freewheeled to a 70-yard catch-and-run. Moss, after weeks of calls for his job, finished the drive with a touchdown keeper and finished another with a 40-yard touchdown catch-and-run to Lemon.

And USC, finally, found Big Ten closure.

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Laguna Beach football makes stunning comeback to beat Dana Hills

• October 26, 2024

LAGUNA BEACH — You could see it on the field in the moments before halftime. The Laguna Beach football team was done. Toast. Finished. Their malaise was evident and clear to the homecoming crowd that gathered to watch them play for a piece of first place in the Foxtrot League.

A wide-open pass was dropped. Quarterback Jackson Kollock was sacked on consecutive plays. The Breakers had no answer to the Dana Hills score and momentum that gave the Dolphins a seven-point lead with a few minutes left in the first half.

Ah, but that’s why they play the second half.

The Breakers are the new poster boys for “bouncing back.” They shook off their first half malaise and scored on Kollock’s 11-yard pass to the backup slot, Jack Hooper, with 20 seconds remaining to score a 35-32 victory over the Dolphins.

Kollock finished 12 of 20 for 180 yards and three touchdowns, and also ran for a score.

On the other sideline, Dana Hills quarterback Vanden Dugger had a night. He completed 21 of 32 for 251 yards, four touchdowns, and a first-half interception at the 16-yard line. His favorite receiver, James Leicester, caught five passes for 122 yards and a TD.

Both teams are defending league champions. Laguna Beach earned a share of first place with the win over the previously unbeaten Dolphins (8-1 overall, 3-1 in league).

The Breakers (8-1 overall, 3-1 in league) close out league play next week at home against Orange while Dana Hills will play host to Northwood, hoping for the same kind of bounce-back that the Breakers showed.

And we mean bounce back. Laguna Beach lost last week to Aliso Niguel, 34-14, and looked like it was still showing the effects from that drubbing in the first half. But it showed what kind of medicine a good second half can provide to a team that’s struggling.

“This means a ton, to overcome the injuries and the adversity this team has faced,” said John Shanahan, who in his ninth season as Laguna Beach’s coach, which includes a Southern Section title and three consecutive league championships. “We’ve got some important victories in late October and November, but this victory ranks way up there.”

And for good reason. The grit his team showed was remarkable. They looked like the wind had gone completely out of their sails at halftime. You could see it from the stands, you could see it on the sidelines. “It sure looked that way,” Shanahan said.

But in the locker room, Minnesota-bound Kollock said his team was just getting warmed up. “The first half we didn’t play to our full potential, but there wasn’t a point where I felt we were out of it,” said Kollock, who tweaked his ankle on the final drive. “We knew we had to execute and do our job.”

And did they ever. Their only offense in the first half was an 82-yard kickoff return by Charlie Hunt. Other than that, the Breakers were outgained 158-44 and Dana Hills ran 31 plays to Laguna’s 18. But halftime gave them a second wind.

Trailing 14-7 at the break, the defense got a stop on the opening possession and good field position at the Laguna 45. Kollock rifled a 22-yard scoring pass to sophomore Brady Stringham, who made a nice sliding catch across the goal line to tie the score at 14-14.

A three-and-out gave Laguna possession at the Dana Hills 46, and Kollock immediately hit Hooper for a scoring pass behind the Dolphins secondary to go ahead on the deep ball, 21-14.

Dana Hills pulled to 21-20 on Radley Geiss’s 1-yard run, though the key play was a controversial roughing the quarterback on third-and-15 to keep the 89-yard drive alive. But the point-after was blocked by Hooper to protect a 21-20 Laguna lead.

Dana Hills recovered the onside kick with Cameron Weaver catching the ball in stride. Dugger got most of the 47 yards on the first play, a 46-yard completion too Leicester. Laguna stuffed the run twice before Dugger hit Chuck Eckl for a 1-yard score. The 2-point conversion was intercepted by Stringham but Dana Hills led, 26-21, with 7:58 left in the game.

Seven plays later, Kollock ran into the end zone from 3 yards. The 2-point conversion failed but now Laguna had a 27-26 lead with 6:30 remaining.

Dana answered in resounding fashion. Dugger connected on three consecutive passes, of 20, 26, and 29 yards – the last to Leicester to go up, 32-27, following the failed 2-point attempt with 5:26 left in the game.

That set the stage for the game-winning drive, 69 yards in 11 plays as the Breakers moved the ball downfield and and the clock inside the minute mark. On fourth-and-4 from the 11, Kollock passed to Hooper on the right sideline, who broke a tackle at the 5 and scored with 20 seconds remaining. A pass to Hooper was good on the conversion to make it 35-32.

“I thought we could get a stop,” said Dana Hills coach Tony Henney. “We didnt convert the 2-point conversions, we had a kick blocked. … Field position hurt us, but we had our chances.

“They’re a great football team. They are who they are, and they’re very good at it.”

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Strong all-around effort carries Orange Lutheran football to victory over Servite

• October 26, 2024

COSTA MESA — Orange Lutheran came in well prepared for its Trinity League football showdown against Servite on Friday at Orange Coast College.

Orange Lutheran never stopped applying pressure on defense and quarterback T.J. Lateef led the offense with three touchdown passes and a rushing touchdown as the Lancers went on to a 38-0 victory over the Friars.

The Lancers (7-2, 3-1), who are ranked No. 3 in the county, take on first-place Mater Dei (8-0, 4-0) in the final regular-season game on Friday, Nov. 1.

After the Monarchs’ 59-14 victory over St. John Bosco on Friday, the Lancers are in a tie for second place with the Braves (8-1, 3-1).

Orange Lutheran coach Rod Sherman said the victory was the Lancers’ “most complete game of the season.”

“We’re excited to go play Mater Dei next week,” Sherman said. “We know they’re an unbelievable football team. We’ve played a lot of Top 20 teams in the country and we feel like we’re a Top 20 team in the country. We’re going to be ready to go next week.”

Mater Dei and the Braves are the No. 1 and No. 2 teams in the nation, respectively.

The Friars (6-3, 1-3), who are ranked No. 4 in the county, play No. 6 Santa Margarita (3-6, 0-4) next week.

“I thought our defense was physical at every level,” Sherman said. “We really got after the pocket and won at the line of scrimmage defensively. Those guys played really, really hard.”

The Lancers forced the Friars into third-and-long situations in all five of the Friars’ drives in the first half.

Those drives resulted in a punt, a stop on fourth down followed by three more punts.

On one first-half drive, the Friars had a first-and-10 on the Lancers 17.

The Lancers allowed a yard on first down, forced consecutive incompletions in the end zone and then stopped the Friars on fourth down.

Orange Lutheran took over and drove 91 yards, capping the drive with an 11-yard touchdown pass from Lateef to Chris Flores, to give the Lances a 7-0 lead.

After a Servite punt in the second quarter, the Lancers took over on their 11 with one minute, 47 seconds left.

The Lancers executed a textbook two-minute drill, exhibiting excellent clock management, driving 89 yards in 12 plays.

Lateef capped the drive with a 3-yard touchdown pass to A.J. Ia, giving the Lancers a 14-0 lead at the half.

With Orange Lutheran leading 17-0 early in the third quarter, the Friars gambled and went for it on fourth-and-3 from their 38.

Linebacker Talanoa Ili tackled Quad Carr for an 8-yard loss and the Lancers took advantage of the short field when Lateef hit Nico Bland for an 11-yard touchdown, upping the lead to 24-0.

The game was played with a running clock for most of the fourth quarter.

“I believe that we have a very skilled defense and that our game plan was just to rally to the ball and just stop the run,” side defensive lineman Jireh Moe, one of the Lancers’ anchors on defense. “We stop the run first, then once we stop the run it was smooth sailing.”

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Orange County scores and player stats for Friday, Oct. 25

• October 26, 2024

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Here’s how the song ‘Monster Mash’ came to be

• October 26, 2024

A monster hit

“Monster Mash” was originally written as a parody of several pop fads that have faded away, but the song is an American novelty song that lives on like a vampire.

In the early 1960s two cultural trends set the stage for the making of “Monster Mash.” One was that the broadcasting of 1930s and 1940s monster films by TV stations had reintroduced Count Dracula and others to a new generation.

One of the most popular toys for Christmas in 1962 was a plastic Frankenstein model.

The big influence was the dance fad at the time that brought songs about dances such as The Twist and Mashed Potato to the top of the charts.

The writers

Bobby Pickett was an aspiring actor looking for work in Hollywood.

On the weekends he sang with a group called the Cordials in clubs around Los Angeles.

Pickett worked a Boris Karloff Frankenstein’s Monster impression into the act and it was well received.

Fellow Cordials band member Leonard Capizzi and Pickett wrote the song together and pitched it to record labels.

They were rejected four times before it was picked up by Gary S. Paxton’s Garpax Records. Paxton had a novelty song hit with “Alley Oop” in 1957 and produced “Monster Mash,” as well as the song on the B-side, “Monster Mash Party.”

Musicians on the recording

The band credited on the recording is “The Crypt-Kickers,” and are said to have included Leon Russell on piano and the Ventures drummer Mel Taylor on one or both of the recordings.

Chart success

The song was released in Aug. 1962 and went to No. 1 on the Billboard charts for the week of Oct. 20-27. The song has charted three times: 1962, when it reached No. 1, and in 1970 and 1973. The song is still a popular ringtone and digital download.

Monstrous endorsement

Above, is a promotional photo of Boris Karloff from “Bride of Frankenstein.”

Karloff liked the “Monster Mash” song so much that he performed it himself on a 1965 episode of the televised musical variety show “Shindig!”

Pickett’s acting career resulted in parts in a few B-rated movies, but he made a fortune from royalties of “Monster Mash,” which has been featured in more than 40 TV shows and films.

Pickett died in 2007 in Los Angeles at the age of 69.

Making a graveyard smash hit

Well covered: “Monster Mash” has been recorded by more than 20 other groups and in many different languages.

“Monster Mash: The Movie” came out in 1995 and featured Bobby Pickett as Dr. Victor Frankenstein.

Some of the notable cover versions include Vincent Price’s version in 1977, a Smashing Pumpkins version in 2008 and Alvin and the Chipmunks version in 1994.

You can do the mash

There is no official dance for the “Monster Mash,” but the song’s music is a spoof of the song “Mashed Potato Time” by Dee Sharp that was released in 1962.

This is a version of the Mashed Potato Dance with arms held like a monster. Chubby Checker’s “The Twist,” released in 1960, kicked off a named dance craze.

You can find a beginner tutorial on Youtube here.

Other Halloween hits

“Addams Family Theme”Written by: Victor “Vic” MizzyMizzy also wrote the theme song for the 1960s sitcom “Green Acres.” Mizzy wrote several scores for films and many songs that were hits for such artists including Doris Day and The Andrews Sisters.“The Addams Family,” a sitcom featuring New Yorker cartoonist Charles Addams’ characters, ran for 64 episodes in two seasons between 1964-66.The song’s arrangement features a harpsichord and finger-snaps.Mizzy’s theme was popular enough to be released as a single, but it failed to make the national charts.

“The Munsters”The instrumental theme song, titled “The Munster’s Theme,” was composed by composer/arranger Jack Marshall.The song had lyrics written by the sitcom’s co-producer, Bob Mosher, but were never aired.First verse: When you are walking down the street at nightAnd behind you there’s no one in view.But you hear mysterious feet at night,Then the Munsters are following you.The theme was nominated for a Grammy Award in 1965.“The Munsters” had 70 episodes between 1964-66.

“Thriller”Michael Jackson’s 13-minute music video for the song “Thriller” became the best selling music video in history.

Billboard magazine ranked it the No. 1 Halloween song of all time and it is still listed as the most successful music video of all time, selling more than nine million copies. It was released on Dec. 2, 1983.

The film begins with a disclaimer:

“Due to my strong personal convictions, I wish to stress that this film in no way endorses a belief in the occult.” —Michael Jackson

You can find Billboard.com’s 20 biggest Halloween hits here.

Spoiler alert: The Billboard list has Monster Mash at No. 1, and “Thriller did not make the top 20.

“Monster Mash”Written by Bobby Pickett & Leonard Capizzi

I was working in the lab, late one nightWhen my eyes beheld an eerie sightFor my monster from his slab, began to riseAnd suddenly to my surprise

He did the mash, he did the monster mashThe monster mash, it was a graveyard smashHe did the mash, it caught on in a flashHe did the mash, he did the monster mash

From my laboratory in the castle eastTo the master bedroom where the vampires feastThe ghouls all came from their humble abodesTo get a jolt from my electrodes

They did the mash, they did the monster mashThe monster mash, it was a graveyard smashThey did the mash, it caught on in a flashThey did the mash, they did the monster mash

The zombies were having funThe party had just begunThe guests included Wolfman,Dracula, and his son

The scene was rockin’, all were digging the soundsIgor on chains, backed by his baying houndsThe coffin-bangers were about to arriveWith their vocal group, ‘The Crypt-Kicker Five’

They played the mash, they played the monster mashThe monster mash, it was a graveyard smashThey played the mash, it caught on in a flashThey played the mash, they played the monster mash

Out from his coffin, Drac‘s voice did ringSeems he was troubled by just one thingOpened the lid and shook his fist and said“Whatever happened to my Transylvania Twist?”

It’s now the mash, it’s now the monster mashThe monster mash, it’s now a graveyard smashIt’s now the mash, it caught on in a flashIt’s now the mash, it’s now the monster mash

Now everything’s cool, Drac’s a part of the bandAnd my Monster Mash is the hit of the landFor you, the living, this mash was meant tooWhen you get to my door, tell them Boris sent you

Then you can mash, then you can monster mashThe monster mash, and do my graveyard smashThen you can mash, you’ll catch on in a flashThen you can mash, then you can monster mash

Sources: The Associated Press, RIAA, Billboard, Rolling Stone magazine, IMDb

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Chargers’ Joey Bosa grateful for his health and a return to lineup Sunday

• October 26, 2024

EL SEGUNDO — At one point, the pain was so intense that Chargers outside linebacker Joey Bosa said he slept on an exercise ball he swiped from the training room at the team’s headquarters. He said he curled up in a fetal position for hours because that was the only way to ease the pain.

It had started with lower back pain that was manageable, but he said Friday he knew something was wrong the day after the Chargers’ victory over the Carolina Panthers on Sept. 15. He did his best to get through a week’s worth of practice while the team stayed in Charlotte, North Carolina.

But when he ran onto the field for the Chargers’ game against the Steelers in Pittsburgh the next Sunday, he knew he was pushing his luck. Usually, he said he would sprint onto the field from the locker room, trying to outrun his teammates for the pregame warmup. He could barely jog this time.

Bosa lasted one play before his left leg gave out and he had to leave the game for the sideline. The lower back pain shifted to his left buttock and, ultimately, caused irritation along the sciatic nerve that runs from the back/hip area down the side of each leg. In Bosa’s case, it was his left leg.

The pain was excruciating, unending, and he couldn’t perform rehabilitation exercises after the team’s return from Pittsburgh. He couldn’t sleep because the pain kept him up as he lay in bed. The only cure for his sleepless nights was to drape himself over that large exercise ball and hope for the sandman to come.

It’s been more than a month, but the healing process has finally taken hold and Bosa said Friday he will play in the Chargers’ game against the New Orleans Saints on Sunday at SoFi Stadium. How much he will play is still to be determined, but it is likely he will be on a limited snap count.

“I’m feeling good,” he said in his first public comments since he was injured in the game against Pittsburgh on Sept. 22. “It’s been a tough, tough five weeks now, but I’m starting to come around. I had three really good days in a row. I took it easy (Friday). It’s been a really interesting one.

“I’ve been telling you (reporters) how good I’ve been feeling and here I am missing all these weeks, but it’s finally coming around. I had two good practices. I think getting through this week, this game, I think it’s going to keep stacking (days) and I’m going to continue to improve and, hopefully, get back to the form I was in.

“I’m definitely going to be out there (Sunday).”

He credited his family, his teammates and coaches, the athletic training staff and his therapist for lifting his spirits and doing what they could to aid his recovery both physically and mentally. He revealed the strain of his injury was often difficult to bear emotionally, given his string of injuries in recent seasons.

Bosa played only nine games last season and five in the 2022 season.

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“I’m just grateful I have a great team around me,” he said. “I know for a fact that I would not be standing here or be as successful as I am without all these people around me. So, I just want to thank everybody, including my teammates, for having my back and not pushing me and just being there for me.

“Dealing with stuff like this makes you realize it can be over at any moment. I just don’t want to take anything for granted. I don’t want to look back and say, ‘shoulda, coulda, woulda.’ I think I have a few years, hopefully, a few good years left and I just want to take advantage of my opportunity.”

Bosa, 29, said he didn’t believe the end of his nine-year NFL career was at hand, but it wasn’t too difficult to imagine it coming to an end in the not-too distant future. After all, he was sidelined by a broken hand that required surgery during training camp as well as by foot and groin injuries that limited him to only a handful of games in recent seasons.

“Your mind tends to ruminate, go to the future, go to the past,” he said. “What if I did this? What if I did that? When you get into that state, it’s important to kind of reel it in and take it, maybe not a day at a time, but a minute at a time, an hour at a time. It’s pretty trendy to talk about being mindful and staying in the moment, but there’s a reason it’s popular because it’s important.”

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Letter: You’d have to be brainwashed to think Kamala Harris is the answer to America’s problems

• October 26, 2024

Remember when Kamala Harris told us that Bidenomics is working and she’s very proud of the Biden economy?

I think she said this somewhere around the time she told us that there’s no border crisis and she’s the border czar. How she knew this by never having gone to the border is Kreskin-like.

When asked if she’d do anything different than Joe Biden the answer, aside from her usual word salad was…”no.” Things were just peachy back then.

Now we’re being told by Harris that if you vote for her she’ll fix everything.

Weren’t you and Biden in charge all this time? Why didn’t you fix things while you were in office? Biden even said that Harris was in on all the decision making. Like all roads leading to Rome, all her answers lead to the scapegoat of the Democrats, Donald J Trump. Everything was his fault.

Harris even makes the Orwellian claim that the economy was terrible under Trump compared to today. Very confusing since I thought it was bad now. I distinctly remember gas and food prices when Trump was president. They were much lower. Interest rates were much lower. Inflation was much lower. We were energy independent.

Harris and her ilk say whatever they expect people to believe at any given time of day, reality be damned.  One sentence has nothing to do with the other.

People have been so conditioned to hate Trump that no matter how much Harris and her ilk lie, people will lap up what they’re told by the propagandists on CNN or MSNBC.

Unfortunately people who’ve been brainwashed don’t realize they’ve been brainwashed since they’ve been….well, brainwashed.

John Cramer, Los Angeles

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Here’s what Americans fear the most in 2024

• October 26, 2024

With Halloween only days away, we’re looking at the findings of Chapman University’s Survey of what scares us.

The survey

The goal of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears is to collect data annually on the fears, worries and concerns of Americans and how those fears are associated with other attitudes and behaviors. The survey asked more than 1,000 people across the country about 85 fears in a wide range of categories, from crime to natural disasters to ghosts, spiders and public speaking.

This is the 10th year of the survey, conducted for Chapman by SSRS and using a probability-based method. The survey was fielded in the spring over the internet. There were 1,008 respondents, with a margin of error of +/- 4%

‘Americans are becoming more afraid’

“This year, all of our Top 10 fears were expressed by more than half of Americans, and many were high throughout the rest of the survey,” said Christopher Bader, chair of Chapman’s sociology department. “This tells me Americans are becoming more afraid in general, about everything.”

The fear of corrupt government officials tops the list, as it has for the previous nine years. Americans are also very fearful about loved ones becoming seriously ill or dying, nuclear war, terrorism and running out of money.

Recent world events have stirred fears about war and terrorist attacks, given that six of the top concerns have to do with war or warfare, Bader said. The fear of running out of money moved from the 10th spot on the 2023 list to No. 6. Climate fear has been consistent year over year, with about 49% of respondents saying they were afraid or very afraid of the effects of climate change.

You can see the full list for 2024 here.

Chapman University professors have a book available, which was published by NYU Press “Fear Itself, The Causes and Consequences of Fear in America,” by Christopher D. Bader, Joseph O. Baker, L. Edward Day and Ann Gordon.

The authors say persistent fear negatively affects individuals’ decision-making abilities and causes anxiety, depression and poor physical health. Further, fear harms communities and society by corroding social trust and civic engagement. Yet politicians often effectively leverage fears to garner votes, and companies routinely market unnecessary products that promise protection from imagined or exaggerated harms.

Source: The Chapman University Survey of American Fears; Chapman’s Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences; Pew Research Center

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