Slightly more Americans distrust the federal economic data than trust it, according to a survey published Tuesday. The Economist/YouGov poll found that 46 percent of Americans “completely or somewhat” ...

A $2 trillion market for securities linked to US inflation data could be the first area of Treasuries that would crack if the Bureau of Labor Statistics is politicized, according to bond investors.

Conservative people in America appear to distrust science more broadly than previously thought. Not only do they distrust science that does not correspond to their worldview. Compared to liberal ...

President Trump and members of his administration have often expressed a distrust of science and experts. That distrust is now helping to shape policies in several areas of government, from vaccines ...

With control of the U.S. Senate on the line next year, Georgia once again sits at the center of America's political map. Experts like Dr. Sam Woolley, the William S. Dietrich II Endowed Chair in ...

Trust is very hard to build and easy to destroy. America and its partners are caught in a spiral of distrust. By Damien Cave Damien Cave covers global affairs and is The Times’s Vietnam bureau chief.

People talk about lying with statistics all the time. People talk about lies, damn lies, and statistics. All this talk makes it so that many people distrust statistics simply out of the gate. As ...

Science has given us vaccines, life-saving medical treatments, technological advances, and a deeper understanding of human behavior. And yet, despite these undeniable contributions, public distrust of ...