Project Syndicate

The Right Name for the Gulf of Mexico

Imagine if US President Donald Trump renamed the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf of North America. That simple tweak would trigger a meaningful shift in perspective and better reflect the Americas’ ...
Courthouse News Service

Gulf of TBD: The crusade to change a 500-year-old name

NOAA's Gulf of America Disaster Response Center in Mobile, Alabama, is covering the word "Mexico" on its facade to comply with President Donald Trump's executive order. NOAA and other federal ...
MassLive

U.S. Rep. makes embarrassing mistake in defending ‘Gulf of America’ change

One United States Representative has spoken in favor of changing the Gulf of Mexico’s title to “Gulf of America,” as directed in an executive order signed by President Donald Trump earlier this ...
NJ.com

Ignorant Trump MAGA Rep’s reason for naming ‘Gulf of America’ will make your head explode

When Donald Trump announced that he wanted to rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, his executive order, signed in late January, gave the reason: The Gulf plays a “pivotal role” in ...
Mongabay

Oil companies have downplayed extent of spills in Gulf of Mexico, investigation finds

Mongabay Latam and Data Crítica examined and compared official data of oil spills in the Gulf of Mexico, including satellite images by scientists studying oil spills and evidence compiled by ...
Nieman Journalism Lab

Nine months later, that body of water down south is still the “Gulf of Mexico” to news outlets

Donald Trump didn’t struggle to win the Florida town of Longboat Key in 2024. With a median age of 71.5 — only 6% of its residents are under 50 — it’s the sort of retirement community that built up ...