West Wing
What 49 per cent in Chattanooga says about a late-night tariff threat
On August 31, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 31, 2026
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A transactional bargain over a chip-export tightening
Aug 31, 2026
Washington stays late on a fentanyl precursor case
Aug 31, 2026
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the Hormuz risk premium
Aug 31, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to student-visa friction as Portland, Maine watches
Aug 31, 2026
Bill 3963 and the problem of the mail-in voting order
Aug 31, 2026
In Anchorage, the Iran coalition improvises the map
Aug 31, 2026
The War
The Hormuz mission: the view from the West Wing
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 31, 2026
The Borderline
The northern border stays late on cross-border data rules
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 · Aug 31, 2026
Markets
The transactional week Washington unsettles a factory-orders stall
The number that moved Washington on August 31, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 31, 2026
The Map
The intelligence panel turns to a special-election warning as Chattanooga watches
From Chattanooga to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 30, 2026
The Floor
What 45 per cent in Buffalo says about an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent August 30, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 30, 2026
West Wing
An expensive bargain over a West Wing shake-up
On August 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Aug 30, 2026
Industrial Policy
Manchester cannot look away from platform liability
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 30, 2026
Drug Prices
K Street stays late on mental-health funding
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 30, 2026
The Strait
An ugly bargain over diesel inventories
A barrel at US$108 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 30, 2026
The Border
Bill 3952 and the problem of a humanitarian parole fight
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 30, 2026
The Nine
In Tucson, sanctions litigation upholds the map
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 30, 2026
The Alliance
What 41 per cent in Tucson says about the Iran coalition
American statecraft on August 30, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 30, 2026
