September 17, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Sep 17, 2026 · 4m

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 — from Anthropic's Dario Amodei to OpenAI's Sam Altman — are running a decades-old playbook in which incumbents beg for regulation to smother their smaller competitors. Secretary of State Marco Rubio wraps up his third South America tour, courting a new class of right-leaning governments in Colombia, Ecuador, and Peru with minerals deals, nuclear cooperation, and cartel crackdowns. Joseph Addington reports that with U.S…