The morning light was still soft over Phnom Penh when fifty young Cambodians began to gather for a workshop that would ask more of them than simply sitting through lectures. They were university students, recent graduates, and young professionals, and they had come with a sense of purpose that felt heavier than the usual networking event. These were people who had watched their parents struggle to tell real messages from fake ones. They had seen classmates share misinformation that spread fear through village chat groups. They had heard stories of neighbors losing money to callers whose voices sounded exactly like…

There are moments in Washington that are so perfectly, painfully on the nose that you have to check the calendar to make sure you’re not watching a political satire. Tuesday was one of those days. Senator Eric Schmitt, a Missouri Republican with a taste for aggressive questioning, found himself at the center of a self-inflicted fiasco that had senators, reporters, and even the internet collectively wincing. Schmitt spent the afternoon accusing former special counsel Jack Smith of perjury, calling him a “dirtbag” and insisting that Smith had lied under oath about attending an Atlanta Hawks basketball game in February 2024.…