Why We Are So Easily Outraged (And What To Do About It)

The past week has offered plenty of stories that seem designed to invite outrage. From Pepsi’s tone deaf ad to Bill O’Reilly’s mistreatment of women to a passenger forcibly removed from a United flight. The common reaction online to all of these stories is one of shared outrage. It is an emotion we are feeling and expressing more and more online.

The cross section of stories this week will take a deeper look at why much of the outrage we feel may come from a combination of laziness, manipulat...