Let’s be honest: American democracy is going through a brutal stress test. The midterms are here, and the question hanging over everything isn’t just whether Republicans or Democrats win—it’s whether we can still hold free and fair elections and accept the results. We have an authoritarian-minded demagogue in the White House who tried to overturn the last election and is already setting up excuses to reject this one. That’s not a normal situation. It’s a constitutional fever, and we’re all waiting to see if the patient survives. I’ve been thinking about this constantly, which is why I’m co-hosting a pop-up…

The Doppelgänger project, as revealed by internal documents and reporting, was an ambitious and deceptive Russian influence operation dressed up in the clothes of legitimate scholarship. The core idea was to create nonprofit organizations in various countries that would look like independent research institutes but were actually vehicles for recruiting international experts and laundering pro-Russian narratives into public discourse. These fake think tanks were meant to give Russian talking points a veneer of academic credibility, making them more palatable to Western audiences. The documents show a clear pattern: set up a seemingly respectable front, staff it with sympathetic voices, and…