Petropavlivska Borshchahivka is not the kind of place where one expects to see the machinery of modern information warfare come down with such force. A settlement on the edge of Kyiv, it has already been shaped by years of war, by displacement, by the quiet exhaustion of people who go to sleep and wake up to the same uncertainty. But on Nov. 2, it became the stage for something more confusing than an ordinary wartime incident. Social media channels began to fill with a dramatic and terrifying claim: armed men were holding around 40 people in the basement of a…

Have you ever stood in a grocery aisle, reading the fine print on a familiar box, and felt a small surge of pride because the label promised something authentically American? For many Californians, that sense of wholesome trust was extended to R.C. Bigelow Inc., a company that has long traded on its image as a 100% American family-owned business. But a recent class action lawsuit has peeled back the curtain on that marketing, alleging that the company was not entirely upfront about where its tea truly originated. If you purchased certain Bigelow tea products in California between October 17, 2017,…