In the beginning was the mob, and the mob was bad. In Gibbon’s 1776 “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire,” the Roman mob makes regular appearances, usually at the instigation of a demagogue, loudly ...

When online meat supplier Crowd Cow first launched, you had the opportunity to literally buy shares of a cow directly from a local farm. Once enough people pooled in to buy an entire cow, your cut was ...

Fifty years ago in a Washington, DC nightclub, the Ramsey Lewis Trio recorded "The In Crowd," a rare jazz single that landed on the pop charts. Critic Kevin Whitehead says the fans were half the show.

Watching a concert or a sports event alongside thousands of other people can be both exhilarating and dangerous, and researchers now have new theories about how people behave when they get too close ...

While tragedies such as the deaths of 151 people at a Halloween event in Seoul are rare, anyone attending a big gathering should keep these safety tips in mind, experts say. By Dani Blum A crowd surge ...

“There were piles of shoes and clothing,” said Wertheimer, who responded to the scene as the city’s public information officer. “I couldn’t shake the feeling after studying this incident and being ...

It happened at a music festival in Houston, a soccer stadium in England, during a hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia, in a Chicago nightclub, and countless other gatherings: Large crowds surge toward ...

If you’ve ever been to a big concert, rally, sports event, or festival, you may have found yourself in the midst of a crowd of people packed together as far as the eye can see. Such large gatherings ...