White House press aides look at a reporter who asks questions during a briefing at the White House on March. 8. (Haiyun Jiang/FTWP) Analysis by Philip Bump It is a grim time to be a member of the news ...

The stalemate over how to reopen the government is being inflamed by something no policy provision can fix: a deep-seated distrust between the leaders of the parties. The trust gap has a lengthy ...

Conservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview, but also, compared to ...

President Trump and members of his administration have often expressed a distrust of science and experts. That distrust is now helping to shape policies in several areas of government, from vaccines ...