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October 24, 2026
Good morning! Today is Saturday, October 24th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. As the Iran War nears its ninth month, Ambassador Mike Waltz tells the Financial Times the conflict could stretch another year or more, even as oil prices surge and Trump weighs renewed strikes. TAC editors have been making the case for restraint across major outlets in recent weeks, from Al Jazeera and the New Yorker to the Matt Gaetz Show and the East-West Forum in Istanbul. Alan Pell Crawford casts a wry eye on a motherless elephant calf at the National Zoo, the latest "definitive"…
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