2026
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373 stories from July 2026 · page 7 of 16
The Strait
A barrel at US$100 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 19, 2026
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The Map
From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jul 19, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent July 19, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jul 19, 2026
West Wing
On July 19, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jul 19, 2026
Industrial Policy
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 · Jul 19, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jul 18, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$100 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 18, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jul 18, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. An emergency war-powers case is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jul 18, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on July 18, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jul 18, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jul 18, 2026
The Borderline
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jul 18, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on July 18, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 18, 2026
