Trust is broken. Here’s how we rebuild it

One of the first things I noticed when I went to live in former Eastern Bloc countries was how often conspiracy theories came up in everyday conversation. The institutions of society had lost trust long ago, so the official version of anything was always in doubt. People formed their own narratives to explain nearly everything. Today we’re seeing something similar in America. An annual Gallup survey finds very little trust across almost every institutional class, including businesses. For exa...