The Map
Bill 2062 and the problem of mail-ballot rules
From Chattanooga to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 23, 2026
2026
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An overnight bargain over the debt-limit shadow play
Mar 23, 2026
A dangerous bargain over a late-night tariff threat
Mar 23, 2026
The dangerous week Washington onshores a chip-export tightening
Mar 23, 2026
Toledo cannot look away from hospital staffing
Mar 23, 2026
The defence production rewrite hiding inside the Hormuz risk premium
Mar 23, 2026
Banking turns to the northern border narrative as Buffalo watches
Mar 23, 2026
The Nine
The unfinished week Washington rewrites a tariff-authority challenge
The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Mar 23, 2026
The Alliance
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts a Venezuela oil bargain
American statecraft on March 23, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 23, 2026
The War
Canada’s stake in carrier-group math just got larger
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 22, 2026
The Borderline
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — dollar-for-dollar tariffs, seen from both sides of the border.
Elena Voss · Mar 22, 2026
Markets
The September FOMC: the view from Foggy Bottom
The number that moved Washington on March 22, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 22, 2026
The Map
Bill 2050 and the problem of mail-ballot rules
From Fresno to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 22, 2026
The Floor
Omaha cannot look away from a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Lawmakers spent March 22, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 22, 2026
West Wing
A photo-op with refiners: the view from Foggy Bottom
On March 22, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 22, 2026
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on cloud contracts at DoD
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Mar 22, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2046 and the problem of a fentanyl precursor case
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 22, 2026
The Strait
A transactional bargain over Canadian heavy crude
A barrel at US$80 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 22, 2026
The Border
Bill 2044 and the problem of asylum clock rules
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 22, 2026
