Full disclosure: This article was written with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence. Efforts were made to ensure accuracy. The author welcomes you to post any inaccuracies you may find in the comments. We are living in an unprecedented moment in history. The United States Treasury—the very institution responsible for managing the nation’s financial stability—has been hijacked, not by a foreign adversary or elected officials acting within the law, but by a billionaire with an outsized ego and a dangerous disregard for democracy. Elon Musk’s illegal coup-style takeover of the Treasury is not just a financial crime. It is a fundamental assault on the very idea of self-governance. And yet, despite the gravity of this crisis, too many people remain silent Some out of fear, others out of apathy. But we cannot afford to be silent. If history teaches us anything, it is that political awareness and civic action are not optional; they are essential. And yes, speaking out comes at a c...

  On Tuesday evening, March 25 in Somerville, Massachusetts, Turkish national Rumeysa Ozturk was on her way to meet friends at an Iftar dinner, where they would break their Ramadan fast. It turns out she would never make it to the gathering, according to her attorney. Instead, the 30-year-old was arrested and physically restrained by immigration officers near her apartment, close to Tufts University’s Somerville campus where she was a PhD student, lawyer Mahsa Khanbabai told CNN. Thank goodness for security cameras, the all-seeing eyes of today’s digital age, that we were witness to the act of an official kidnapping. That was how CNN and other news outlets were able to publicize Ozturk’s arrest by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents. While no charges have been filed against Ozturk, according to her attorney, Ozturk’s visa status has been terminated, according to a statement released Thursday by Tufts President Sunil Kumar. A federal judge in Boston issued an or...