Current Affairs Editor-in-Chief @NathanJRobinson joins Will Cain on Fox News to explain why Democratic socialists aren’t excited about a 2028 field led by Kamala Harris or Pete Buttigieg.

Cultural Affairs Officer Sunshine Ison visited Gunma’s Takasaki City to share America250 with 110 junior high students and meet the inspiring team at Kurabuchi English Village, where educators including young Americans help connect local youth with the world while supporting a community tackling depopulation.

Apple Names New Government Affairs Chief Apple has hired Nate Gatten, a longtime American Airlines government affairs executive, as its new vice president of government affairs. He will join on August 31 and oversee Apple’s global government-relations operations, while former legal chief Kate Adams remains as an adviser until October 1. Gatten’s appointment comes as Apple faces complex policy issues, including tariffs and relations with the Trump administration. A Republican with previous government-relations experience at JPMorgan and Fannie Mae, Gatten is expected to work closely with CEO Tim Cook. Apple is also undergoing a broader leadership transition, with Cook scheduled to become executive chairman as John Ternus takes over as CEO on September 1.

The Jason Arday affair is a national disgrace. It exposes how deeply entrenched and destructive DEI ideology has become. One might have hoped the horror of what happened to Henry Nowak would finally awaken people to how grossly unfair—and outright dangerous—this obsession with skin colour and victimhood has grown. Most ordinary people accept that academic status should rest on merit and talent. Yet a substantial cohort—ironically the same people quickest to brand dissenters as racists—insist that everything, including merit itself, must yield to racial identity. They are prepared to sacrifice academic integrity and tolerate fraud in order to pose as saviours of the poor, disenfranchised and persecuted “Diversity is our greatest strength,” people, even as the consequences of that dogma pile up. Never mind that honest non-white academics will now face unfair suspicion because of this kind of promotion. The white saviours—who, by any honest definition, are practising a form of racism—will cover up, mislead and deceive to protect the narrative. And when the fraud is exposed, they cannot even manage a straightforward apology. Arday has followed the familiar playbook of those who trade in race. When the claims begin to unravel, he immediately claims victim status on the basis of his skin colour, leans on institutions (and, where possible, the police) who are only too thrilled to investigate non existent racism, and seeks to silence journalists asking legitimate questions. When the truth finally emerges, the exposure of the deception is itself blamed on racism. Insane. This is beyond sinister. It has to stop. There is one human race. For as long as records exist, merit has been the only proper measure of an individual. Critical race theory is intellectual poison: it corrodes every institution it touches. We should learn from this episode and reject it completely.

ITALIAN MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS, THE DISCUSSION INCLUDED CONSULTATIONS BETWEEN IRAN AND OMAN REGARDING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A ROUTE FOR PASSAGE THROUGH THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ, AND ARAQCHI PROVIDED EXPLANATIONS ON THIS MATTER. - TASNIM

Senate Governmental Affairs Cmte Chair Paul on Fauci testimony Wednesday: In January of 2020, he already was acknowledging that the virus didn't originate in the marketplace for years. He's been telling that. If you interviewed him last week, he's probably still telling you. The reason we think it came from nature is because they had these exotic animals, and that's where SARS came from previously. But he knew. He already knew. And we've known this for a while that other people knew, but we didn't know. He actually knew and was acknowledging that it didn't. The earliest people who got Covid were not associated with the marketplace. The Chinese CDC was saying this in January of 2020. He knew it. He told Dear Diary. But to the public, he commissioned this paper called Proximal Origins. And in it they go on and on, saying it's implausible that it came from the lab