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America’s Most Alarming Deficit Is a Five Letter Word
An ambitious new series asks how Americans lost trust in institutions and each other — and how they might get it back.
A picture of distrust.
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Who do you trust less right now: Dave Grohl or the people in charge of Boar’s Head? One one hand, the “parasocial betrayal” of the Foo Fighters lead singer — who conveniently confessed to secretly fathering a child with his mistress just hours before the presidential debate — is pretty gut-wrenching: