September 05, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Sep 5, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Saturday, September 5th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Newly surfaced testimony from former counterterrorism chief Joe Kent confirms that the New Year's Day 2025 Bourbon Street attacker explicitly cited Gaza and U.S. support for Israel, raising questions about why federal officials publicly described him only as ISIS-inspired. Vice President Vance declines to call the 189-day Iran conflict a war even as CENTCOM investigates a deadly strike on a residential area and Netanyahu tells the IDF that regime change in Tehran is within reach…