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Nurses Continue to Rate Highest in Honesty, Ethics

For the 18th year in a row, Americans rate the honesty and ethics of nurses highest among a list of professions that Gallup asks U.S. adults to assess annually. … Americans’ high regard for healthcare professionals contrasts sharply with their assessments of stockbrokers, advertising professionals, insurance salespeople, senators, members of […] Read more »

Searching for truth in an era of ‘alternative facts’: Disinformation in the age of Trump

In an era of politics and journalism that includes “fake news” and disinformation campaigns, it can be difficult to separate the truth from fiction. That was the topic of Sunday’s special edition of “Meet the Press,” entitled “Alternative Facts: Inside the Weaponization of Disinformation.” CONT. Ben Kamisar, NBC News Read more »

The 2010s Were the End of Normal

… Apocalypse is not yet upon our world as the 2010s draw to an end, but there are portents of disorder. The hopes nourished during the opening years of the decade — hopes that America was on a progressive path toward growing equality and freedom, hopes that technology held answers […] Read more »

Lies, Damned Lies and Washington

There are days in Washington lately when it feels like the truth itself is on trial. Monday was one of those days. … While truth was deemed an endangered species in the nation’s capital long before President Trump’s arrival, it has become axiomatic in the era of “alternative facts” that […] Read more »