September 22, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Sep 22, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, September 22nd 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Chancellor Friedrich Merz is now the least popular sitting chancellor in postwar German history, with the CDU collapsing in state elections as AfD surges toward 30 percent nationally and Dieter Stein argues in The American Conservative that the crisis runs far deeper than Merz himself. After the Houthis resumed strikes on Saudi Arabia and President Trump rebuffed Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman's request for U.S. military help, Eldar Mamedov writes that neoconservative attempts to…