Fresh off his “victory” in Germany’s parliamentary elections, Friedrich Merz repudiated the key promise that had enabled his Christian Democratic Union to – barely – stave off the surging Alternative für Deutschland populists. Noting in The European Conservative that more such betrayals are sure to follow, Sabine Beppler-Spahl warns this will only encourage the continued rise of the “extreme right” AfD, which has gained the support of nearly 40 percent of working-class Germans.

Racial Quotas by Algorithm
Allum Bokhari, writing in The American Conservative, illuminates a Colorado state bill claiming to create “a shield against ‘algorithmic discrimination’” that would force AI companies to generate outputs based on government-imposed racial, and other identity-based, quotas. As with past variants of reverse discrimination, asserts Bokhari, Colorado’s AI bill amounts to thinly disguised leftist ideology aimed at institutionalizing the very harm it claims to ameliorate.


