A statuette is the first thing that clues me in to this game’s smarts. It’s a bird of prey, maybe 10 inches tall. It sits on the bookshelf in a young woman’s apartment. She’s a detective living in San ...

Coming into the new year, it is vital to come to grips with the disease that most threatens American democracy—nearly universal distrust of its governing institutions. The anger and polarization ...

When it comes to the way your team members relate to each other, there’s such a thing as too much trust. It’s true. If your team trusts each other unconditionally, mistakes and other issues can slip ...

Research has shown that how trusting a person is may depend, at least in part, on his or her genes. However, distrust does not appear to be inherited in the same way, according to a new study.

But a new Pew Research Center report on political polarization and media habits finds that a significant number of web-using adults get at least some of their news about government and politics from ...

When Pew Research Center sought out ways to measure the amount of trust a news organization has, we quickly found that a news source’s level of trust and distrust is heavily influenced by brand ...

The Edelman Trust Barometer paints a troubling picture of a world where distrust in institutions is at an all-time high. But The Drum’s editor-in-chief, Gordon Young, argues that this might not be the ...

Life goes well when our relationships are suffused with trust. That’s true of our most intimate relationships with friends and family, but also of our day-to-day interactions with colleagues, store ...

In 1964, nearly eight in 10 Americans believed they could trust government to do the right thing most of the time. Within two years, that faith in government had been replaced with doubt. We’ve been ...