June 26, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Jun 26, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Friday, June 26th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. As Vice President Vance unveils the U.S.-Iran Memorandum of Understanding in Switzerland, James P. Pinkerton writes that the result is a muddle—the regime bloodied but not toppled—yet a half-century of reflexive hostility may finally be softening. Harrison Berger reports that congressional Democrats, bankrolled by much of the same donor base as Republican hawks, are working to sabotage the Iran deal, even as 93 percent of their own voters want the war ended. Senator Lindsey Graham is now…