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NYTIMES (Showkat Nanda and Anupreeta Das) - The Accidental Hero Who Faced Down India’s Government

Abhijeet Dipke founded the Cockroach Janta Party as a joke after a judge insulted young people. The idea snowballed into a generational movement that has challenged the country’s leaders.

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Van Buren) - Trump’s Immigration Success—And Its Discontents

The administration has made real progress in enforcing the law and reforming institutions, but some people are never happy. The post Trump’s Immigration Success—And Its Discontents appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics Trump’s Immigration Success—And Its Discontents The administration has made real progress in enforcing the law and reforming institutions, but some people are never happy. Photo by Mayra Beltran/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images The street fights with ICE seem to have ended for now. So have many of the televised SWAT-style immigration arrests. Did the resistance win? Have the changes made by the second Donald Trump administration helped curb illegal immigration, or has much of this just been for show? A careful look at the sum of the evidence at this point shows the measurable effects are increasingly difficult to dispute, whatever the political debate may be. No one knows how many illegal immigrants (a catch-all term here…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Ted Snider, Nicolai N. Petro) - The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing

Division and strife are undermining Ukraine’s already troubled war effort. The post The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign policy The Meaning of Fedorov’s Firing Division and strife are undermining Ukraine’s already troubled war effort. Photo by Tetiana Dzhafarova / AFP via Getty Images On January 14, 2026, Mykhailo Fedorov was appointed Ukraine’s minister of defense. Just six months later, he was dismissed.  One of Fedorov’s principal tasks, bigger even than addressing the shortage of Patriot interceptors, had been reforming his country’s recruitment and mobilization system. But manpower shortages remain a chronic issue, forcing the government to resort to unpopular solutions like “busification” (the Ukrainian term for the seizure of draft-age men by mobile patrols). Harsh measures like these led to large protests in the city of Lviv…Open