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 ...

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 ...

Mr. Witt is the author of “The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America.” As democracy in the United States spirals into a widening gyre of distrust, demagogy and ...

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 ...