Israel and the West are facing cruel enemies—Iran and Islamist terrorism, to begin with—but there is another enemy just as dangerous, one that sneaks into our minds instead of blowing up our streets: the narrative that has taken the place of facts and truth. I have been a journalist covering the Middle East since the middle of the last century, and when I started, the rules were simple. You found the facts, you wrote them, you explained them, and you let the chips fall where they might. It didn’t matter whether the truth helped your friends or hurt your enemies;…

In the fragile, flickering light of a Kyiv apartment, where the hum of a generator often outweighs the sound of the street, a strange new form of resistance has taken root. It is not forged from steel or fueled by gunpowder, but from the persistent, tireless tapping of keyboards, the glowing screens, and the collective effort of millions of citizens who refuse to let their nation be erased. This is the story of how Ukrainian civil society—nurses, teachers, programmers, and retirees—has turned the digital sphere into a battlefield, teaching artificial intelligence to think, see, and ultimately survive the relentless Russian…