Opinion | A Deceptively Simple Way to Rebuild Trust in Scary Times

One way that stories build trust between strangers is by making these strangers reimagine each other as family.

He takes a ball of string and throws it to a student, saying something nice to her. And then the child continues the practice, holding her part of the string and throwing the ball to another student and saying another nice thing, and so on, until the group has built a spiderweb of string. “If I tug my end of the web, everyone else feels it move, an