Most people who move to the United States from another country do so with dreams of stability, opportunity, and a better life. They learn new customs, find jobs, and slowly build roots in communities far from their native land. Mukeshkumar Somabhai Chaudhari, an Indian national now caught in the American legal system, probably never imagined that a trip to the polls could turn into a federal prosecution. But that is exactly what has happened. Chaudhari has been charged in the United States in connection with the 2024 general election. Prosecutors say he falsely claimed to be a U.S. citizen and…

The Human Cost of the Digital Mud-Slinging: Inside the War of Bots Imagine, if you will, a dimly lit office block in St. Petersburg, where the hum of air conditioning mixes with the frantic clatter of thousands of keyboards. It is three in the morning, but the lights never truly go out here. On the cheap monitors, a dozen tabs are open, each one spilling a different strain of outrage into the digital bloodstream of the West. The people sitting there look less like masterminds of chaos and more like exhausted, underpaid shift workers—young men and women refreshing news feeds,…