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Public Trust

Choose your reality: Trust wanes, conspiracy theories rise – Associated Press

Photo: This aerial image from video, shows damage to the Georgia Guidestones monument near Elberton, Ga., on July 6, 2022. The Georgia Bureau of Investigation said the monument, which some Christians regard as satanic, was damaged by an explosion before dawn Daniel Charles Wilson believes the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, were an inside job.

U.S. Supreme Court

Supreme Court leak shakes trust in one more American pillar

Is there a new American motto: In nothing we trust? By lots of measures, most in the U.S. lack much confidence in large institutions and have for years. Congress? Two big thumbs down. The presidency? Ehh. Americans are also distrustful of big business, unions, public schools and organized religion. Indeed, they hold abysmal views of

Opinion

Opinion: A Crisis of Trust

Like many of you, I am afraid of COVID. More significantly, I am afraid of my government. I am also tired. I’m tired of doomsday reporting that seems more like propaganda than factual news. I’m tired of the wars of words that have erupted on social media. I’m tired of hearing about anti-vaxxers and covidiots,

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