Vol. 42, No. 04
04/01/2026
From the Publisher | Honest Coverage of Important Events
The task of a publisher is complicated when major stories break at the same time. How to separate facts from rumors? How to interpret what is happening? And which story should receive priority? At The New American we have a long record of cautious journalism. We always try our best not to be swayed by the vagaries of the news. We try to focus on truth and substance over misinformation and perception, which is why our headlines do not always align with the latest sensational story dominating the legacy and social media. At the same time, we recognize that lurid headlines have long served as very effective weapons of mass distraction, and sometimes must claim some of our attention, if only to set the record straight.
The two stories dominating the news cycle right now — the Epstein scandal and the Iran war — are cases in point. Before February 28, we intended to devote most of this issue to the Epstein files and their fallout, not because of their sensationalistic, stomach-churning content, but because of the unprecedented view that they give us of the amoral elites, our would-be ruling class, and their secret abominations. Not since Covid has an event so galvanized and red-pilled the American public, and, as with Covid, The New American needs to be at the forefront of coverage and analysis. After all, even the well-informed are tempted to see the machinations of the Deep State and other criminal, conspiratorial elites purely as political and perhaps financial movements, motivated by power and greed. They are all of that, but at the foundation they are moral and spiritual in nature, and their chief actors constitute an Amoral Minority with a staggering amount of power, influence, and — as the Epstein saga is showing — utter unaccountability to the laws that govern the rest of us. In preparing the materials for coverage of l’Affaire Epstein, we have taken great pains to present enough so that the magnitude of the evil is sufficiently depicted, but not so much as to descend into journalistic voyeurism.
Then came February 28 and Operation Epic Fury. Whether or not this event was deliberately timed to banish Epstein from the news cycle and replace him with patriotic razzle-dazzle, the fact is that we have been thrust into a war so consequential that every other story (not just Epstein) has disappeared from the news cycle. And while events in the Middle East are still unfolding, it is not too soon to offer at least a preliminary perspective. In future issues we will have much more to say about this inflection-level event, and some at least will depend upon whether it turns into yet another “classic blunder” (another “land war in Asia” that Vizzini warned about, tongue in cheek, in The Princess Bride) or whether it achieves the desired regime change within a few weeks, with Iran and the rest of the Middle East the better off for it. But regardless of which way the dogs of war ultimately lunge, some things are already beyond dispute. Foremost among them is that this war, whatever its motives, is a war of choice initiated by President Trump, and without congressional or constitutional countenance. This is not to say that its stated aims, which include the overthrow of one of the world’s worst and most oppressive governments, a sworn foe of the United States, are not laudable. The bloodbath unleashed by Tehran’s tyrants in January must rank as one of the worst such in history. And revolutionary Iran’s 47-year history has been replete with atrocities.
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