Jessica Karl, Columnist

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.

Photographer: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images North America
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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: