Sixty countries just got hit with new American tariffs, and the usual suspects are already screeching about "protectionism." What they will not tell you is why these tariffs exist in the first place: forced labor. Slavery, by another name, baked into the supply chains that stock our shelves.

Remember when America's southern border was a national embarrassment? When cartel coyotes ran the show and Border Patrol agents were reduced to processing clerks for a catch and release circus that stretched from Eagle Pass to Washington, D.C.? That nightmare is dead and buried.

James Smithson never set foot in America. He was a British scientist who died in 1829 and left his fortune to a country he'd never visited, with one condition: found "an establishment for the increase and diffusion of knowledge." Congress spent a decade arguing about what to do with the money before finally chartering the Smithsonian Institution in 1846. For generations it earned its nickname, "the nation's attic," a place where Americans went to see the Wright Flyer, the Star-Spangled Banner, and Lincoln's top hat. Today they can also see a sadomasochistic "crotch harness." Something has gone badly wrong.

Melat Kiros just torched a 15-term Democrat in a Denver primary, and a single 48-second clip tells you everything you need to know about her. Not a speech. Not a policy paper. A clip, the kind that spreads because it says the quiet part out loud. In it, Kiros argues America's foreign policy is "exploitative and extractive" and that the fix is electing more lawmakers with Global South heritage. Not more good policy. Not more common sense. More immigrants. Specifically the right kind of immigrants, the kind who fit her narrative.