Recent polling highlights a significant trust deficit, with Democrats facing skepticism about their credibility. This lack of trust, as reported in March 2025, extends beyond political realms and ...

On Aug. 1, President Donald Trump took a step many economists had feared: firing the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the nonpartisan agency that collects a wide range of closely watched ...

Americans are rightly suspicious of big-government jargon terms like “food insecurity” instead of “hunger” — spurring ...

President Trump’s decision to fire the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics forced his allies into the awkward spot of criticizing an agency they had freely cited in the past. By Luke Broadwater ...

Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who reported from Washington, covers Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his movement. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention puts the U.S. death count from Covid-19 at 1.2 million.

IT is fairly obvious that the study of statistics is not exactly what would be termed a popular pastime. Mr. Eugene Richard White, in his telling article in the December Atlantic, protests that they ...

In ‘Distrust,’ Gary Smith argues that science is being undone by the very tools that scientists developed. But he has a plan to change that. On March 18, 2020, a guest on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” ...

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