In A Necessary Evil, the historian and essayist Gary Wills chronicled the curious tradition of distrusting government in the United States. Fear of government, he observed, has been a “constant ...

Exactly a century ago, the journalist Claude Bowers published “Jefferson and Hamilton: The Struggle for Democracy in America.

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Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public ...

In two studies, we found that people generally trust journalists when they confirm claims to be true but are more distrusting when journalists correct false claims. Some linguistics and social science ...

Argentine "Rita Lopez," 84, keeps her US dollars hidden in an empty pea can in the kitchen. Since childhood, she has steered ...