Foreign Scholars Revolt Against Trump

The letter detonated like a political grenade. Twelve Fulbright board members didn’t just resign—they walked out in protest, accusing the White House of gutting law, legacy, and America’s moral authority in one stroke. They say Trump turned a revered academic lifeline into a partisan loyalty test. His allies fire back with chilling stories of spies in lab coats, stolen research, and campuses quietly compromised. One camp swears this is how democracies slide into authoritarian darkness; the other claims this is how nations fall to foreign subversion. Each insists the real danger isn’t what you think it is. Each says the other side is lying. And in the middle stands a crumbling trust in what America means to the worl… Continues…