American Greatness

China is aggressively developing an AI-driven, highly advanced military robotics program that could see automated humanoid robots for active combat roles on future battlefields. The Daily Wire reports that the Communist Chinese government is carefully eyeing technology that was showcased at the recent World Humanoid Robot Games.

U.S. forces destroyed five Iranian oil tankers Tuesday after Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps twice attempted to strike an American warship with ballistic missiles, escalating Washington’s military and economic pressure on Tehran. U.S. Central Command said the Navy vessel avoided both attacks over the previous two days and no American personnel were injured.

President Donald Trump’s administration asked the Supreme Court on Monday to allow states to resume using a federal citizenship database to identify potential noncitizens on voter rolls ahead of the November midterm elections. The Justice Department is seeking to overturn lower-court rulings blocking expanded use of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program, known as SAVE.

Smithsonian Institution Secretary Lonnie Bunch III announced Tuesday that he will retire by the end of the year, ending his tenure as the Trump administration pushes for major changes at the taxpayer-supported museum complex. Bunch, who has led the Smithsonian since 2019, announced his departure after nearly four decades of service at the institution. “It is with very mixed emotions and heartfelt gratitude that I announce my retirement from the Smithsonian,” Bunch said.

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In August of 2011, the British government—a Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition led by David Cameron—discovered just how tenuous its grasp on law and order really was. The most serious urban riots in a generation were kicked off by the death of a mixed-race man called Mark Duggan on August 4 in Tottenham, north London. Armed police intercepted the car Duggan was traveling in and shot him.

In a display of power that ought to be used for public benefit, California’s public servants have instead prioritized their personal financial interests. Unions representing the state’s police and firefighters pushed a bill through the state legislature that will increase their pension benefits, despite the state’s pension systems barely achieving solvency thanks to critical reforms passed in 2012 combined with a stock market that has roared almost continuously since 2009.

The pervasive homegrown progressive forces, which emphasize politics, sex, and race—all from a radical perspective—have become entrenched in our education system in recent years. But growing evidence shows that foreign enemy influence has also become a factor in the indoctrination of our students.

The Women’s National Basketball Association has recently brought a lot of absurd troubles on itself because its own leaders are unable or unwilling to state the obvious truth: that a man is a man and a woman is a woman, and that not all the pretending in the world can alter the fact, even with hormone-pumping and mutilation and pinning the tail on the donkey.

In 2011, I went to New York to cover Occupy Wall Street. Among the protesters I met was a young man in his thirties who told me, with considerable frustration, that he had earned two master’s degrees and yet ended up serving coffee at Starbucks. “What did you study?” I asked. “Sociology.” Unfortunately, sociology was also my Ph.D. That encounter has stayed with me because it captured a contradiction at the heart of America’s new democratic socialism.