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THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Filip Gaspar) - How the German Right Sees Iran

The Alternative for Germany party is rethinking the Western alliance. The post How the German Right Sees Iran appeared first on The American Conservative .

Foreign Affairs How the German Right Sees Iran The Alternative for Germany party is rethinking the Western alliance. The Iran war has become a test for Germany’s strategic independence and economic resilience. Germany, so far, appears to be failing the test. As Germans debate the issue and reconsider past policy choices, no party has seized the moment more deliberately than the Alternative for Germany, now one of the strongest political forces and the clearest nationalist challenge to Berlin’s governing consensus.  The conflict is not simply a distant war in the Middle East, but yet another sign of deeper disorder within the…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Peter Van Buren) - Is DEI Still Entrenched at the State Department?

The programs engineering a “diverse” Foreign Service are in limbo. The post Is DEI Still Entrenched at the State Department? appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics Is DEI Still Entrenched at the State Department? The programs engineering a “diverse” Foreign Service are in limbo. Credit: image via Shutterstock Despite President Donald Trump and Secretary of State Marco Rubio working to do away with Obama and Biden-era diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI; the State Department added an “A” for accessibility under Biden, so DEIA) programs and their enforcement bureaucracy, Democrats in the Senate are pushing to revive two programs, the Charles Rangel and Thomas Pickering Fellowships. Both exist to provide an alternative pathway into the Foreign Service with benefits…Open

THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Spencer Neale) - MAGA Champion Need Not Apply

The Iran War demonstrates why no “true MAGA” candidate will ever replace Trump. The post MAGA Champion Need Not Apply  appeared first on The American Conservative .

Politics MAGA Champion Need Not Apply  The Iran War demonstrates why no “true MAGA” candidate will ever replace Trump. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images) Strange bedfellows defined the coalition that carried Donald Trump to the presidency in 2016 and 2024. Evangelicals, libertarians, nationalists, and traditional Republicans, groups with little agreement on core policy, laid down their knives on those November Tuesdays to rally behind a whimsical, big-city showman who built, and often mismanaged, his inherited empire. Trump was their champion—a comedian, a performer, but, most importantly, a fighter. If…Open