The stalemate over how to reopen the government is being inflamed by something no policy provision can fix: a deep-seated distrust between the leaders of the parties. The trust gap has a lengthy ...

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 ...

House Democrats are hanging their hopes on party leaders in the Senate to block any government spending bill crafted solely by the GOP, but there’s plenty of distrust between the chambers hovering ...