1. War, in the Middle East, has a way of reaching into the most ordinary places, and this week it turned a busy international airport into a scene of chaos and grief. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthi rebels struck King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia’s capital, in an attack that killed at least twelve people and wounded more than three hundred others, according to Saudi Arabia’s General Authority of Civil Aviation. The dead included four Saudis, two Bangladeshis, and citizens of the United States, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Sudan, and Egypt. For a country that has long tried to project stability…

Every article has a voice. It has a name, a face, a biography, and sometimes a social media presence. You read it and think you are listening to a real person with real opinions, perhaps an American journalist living in New York or a freelance writer with a particular outlook on world affairs. But sometimes the person behind the words does not exist at all, and the words themselves were generated by artificial intelligence, not human experience. That is the unsettling reality behind a recently disclosed influence operation. According to findings released by OpenAI and reported by The Washington Post,…