It is a disturbing exercise in civic imagination: earlier this year, the Brennan Center asked six of the most popular artificial intelligence tools to generate fake election content, and every single one of them obliged. The machines produced a frightening array of disinformation, including a realistic-looking image of someone stuffing mail ballots into a drop box and an official-sounding memo on United States government letterhead that falsely claimed millions of ineligible voters had been identified. With the midterm elections only weeks away, the same researchers decided to run those identical prompts again. Their goal was simple: to see whether the…

On a night that should have been pure celebration, the New York Knicks found themselves caught in an unexpected swirl of criticism. The team had just raised a championship banner for the first time since 1973, and the players received their glittering rings in a pregame ceremony at Madison Square Garden. But within days, reports surfaced that not everyone who helped make the title possible had been treated equally. The Athletic reported that assistant coaches had not received their rings, and the story quickly gained traction. Fans and analysts began to question whether the front office had overlooked a group…