October 27, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Oct 27, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Tuesday, October 27th 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Lula has clinched a historic fourth term in Brazil, but Flavio Bolsonaro refuses to concede after a last-minute Supreme Court ruling by Lula's former attorney extended voting hours nationwide. Bruna Frascolla argues the deeper story is Lula's thin record after sixteen years of Workers' Party rule, with little to offer Brazilian youth beyond welfare amid continued deindustrialization. Steve Witkoff shuttled between Zelensky and Putin last week, and Ted Snider contends an unfair compromise…