November 01, 2026

The American Conservative Morning Briefing · Nov 1, 2026 · 4m

Good morning! Today is Sunday, November 1st 2026, and this is The American Conservative's Morning Brief. Alastair Crooke dissects a glaring contradiction in Washington: the CIA wages covert war on Russia while President Trump courts Putin, with the Starlink episode exposing just how little leverage the president holds over his own intelligence apparatus. As the Iran war reaches day 246, Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei orders retaliation "without geographical limitations" even as Qatari mediators press for a breakthrough and American drivers continue paying $4.18 a gallon at the pump. and now…