The American Conservative Morning Briefing

October 02, 2026

Good morning! Today is Friday, October 2nd 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Ethiopia has slid back into open civil war as seven armed groups u

October 01, 2026

Good morning! Today is Thursday, October 1st 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Iuliia Mendel reports that war-weary Ukrainians are turning agai

September 30, 2026

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, September 30th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Speaker Mike Johnson abruptly cancelled a House session to h

September 29, 2026

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, September 29th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Jack Hunter argues in The American Conservative that Trump's c

September 28, 2026

Good morning! Today is Monday, September 28th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Peter Van Buren examines how the Trump administration has quiet

September 27, 2026

Good morning! Today is Sunday, September 27th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. President Trump has rejected Iran's proposed week-long ceasefir

September 26, 2026

Good morning! Today is Saturday, September 26th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Scott Greer revisits a resurfaced 2016 hype video of freshman

September 25, 2026

Good morning! Today is Friday, September 25th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Day 209 of the Iran War brings murky UNGA back-channel talks ov

September 24, 2026

Good morning! Today is Thursday, September 24th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Tedford Tyler argues that President Xi Jinping's Washington v

September 23, 2026

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, September 23rd 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. At the UN General Assembly, President Trump defended the Ira

September 22, 2026

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 cha

September 21, 2026

Good morning! Today is Monday, September 21st 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Luke Nicastro dissects the new Greenland agreement, arguing tha

September 20, 2026

Good morning! Today is Sunday, September 20th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Governor Greg Abbott's bid for a fourth term in Texas has tight

September 19, 2026

Good morning! Today is Saturday, September 19th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Day two hundred and three of the war with Iran brings a Saudi

September 18, 2026

Good morning! Today is Friday, September 18th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. W. James Antle III examines Trump's high-risk midterm strategy

September 17, 2026

Good morning! Today is Thursday, September 17th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Ann Coulter argues that the AI industry's loudest doomsayers

September 16, 2026

Good morning! Today is Wednesday, September 16th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Zelensky grows increasingly isolated as anti-corruption prob

September 15, 2026

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, September 15th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. President Trump's recent broadsides against British sovereignt

September 14, 2026

Good morning! Today is Monday, September 14th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. On day 198 of the Iran war, Xi Jinping offers Beijing's "due ro

September 13, 2026

Good morning! Today is Sunday, September 13th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Amid record-low approval for President Trump's foreign policy,