On March 25, 2025, federal agents descended on Somerville, Massachusetts, and arrested Rumeysa Ozturk, a Turkish Ph.D. student at Tufts University. The agents, dressed in masks and black uniforms, detained her without any public warning. The reason? Her student visa had been revoked by the U.S. government, reportedly in response to a pro-Palestinian op-ed she…
Trump vs. the AP Over the ‘Gulf of America’
Well, here we are again—another round of media outrage, another Trump controversy, and yet another example of everyone arguing about the wrong things while real issues go ignored. This time, the hullabaloo is about President Trump renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America and then barring the Associated Press (AP) from Air…