On the International Day of Democracy, a day meant to celebrate the quiet, stubborn strength of ordinary people governing themselves, Carl Dolan has published a paper that asks some uncomfortable questions about the European Union’s current approach to protecting that very ideal. Dolan, a Senior Adviser on Ethics and Transparency at the European Policy Centre, is not writing as a cynic or a critic of democracy itself. He is writing as someone who watches the EU’s democracy-protection machinery and worries that it has become too obsessed with one particular enemy: disinformation. Over the past several years, the European Commission under…

Every day, millions of people type symptoms into search bars, scroll through social media feeds, and ask virtual assistants for medical guidance. The information arrives quickly, confidently, and often with a warmth that makes it easy to accept. In this new digital landscape, the line between evidence and imagination can blur. Even experienced healthcare professionals are not immune. Brian Druker, a pioneering physician-scientist at Oregon Health & Science University, built his career on honesty and precision medicine, turning a once-fatal form of leukemia into a manageable condition. He helped launch a wave of life-saving therapies, and he is the driving…