In City Journal, Lexi Boccuzzi discusses Vice President and Presidential Candidate Kamala Harris’s pick of Minnesota Governor Tim Walz as her running mate. Given Walz’s egregiously left-wing track record – imposing among the most tyrannical Covid-19 lockdown regimes, allowing Minneapolis to burn during the George Floyd riots, placing tampons in boys’ school washrooms, authorizing biological men to compete in women’s sports, and pushing DEI policies wherever he can – Boccuzzi is convinced Harris is even harder-left than she’s letting on.
“Papers, please!” Real Borders Make a Comeback in the EU
The 1985 “Schengen” agreement was hailed as the gateway to an eternal utopia of open borders throughout a Europe of 29 countries and 450 million people. Noting the rising number of countries defying EU regulations and restoring national border controls, Lauren Smith in The European Conservative wonders whether the whole Schengen experiment is unravelling under the stresses of uncontrolled illegal migration, crime and social decay.