October 04, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Oct 4, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Sunday, October 4th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Senior Trump officials convene a "highly unusual" meeting on the Iran War as it enters day 218, with diesel prices still near record highs and fresh strikes rattling the Strait of Hormuz. Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders ignites a conservative backlash with a welfare-to-work ad whose lazy cheese-ball-eating star, Brad, happens to be white. Jude Russo argues that leaning on AI to generate your prose shortchanges thought, flattens style, and gives editors every reason to stop paying…