2026
Every Washington Bureau dispatch from January 1 through September 11, kept on this site in full. Pick a month, or start with the latest.
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The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 26, 2026
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The Floor
Lawmakers spent August 25, 2026 arguing over a strategic petroleum rider, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Aug 25, 2026
West Wing
On August 25, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 25, 2026
Industrial Policy
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Aug 25, 2026
West Wing
Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Minutes of the Board's discount rate meetings on July 20 and July 29, 2026.
James Whitfield · Aug 25, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 25, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$107 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 25, 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 · Aug 25, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 25, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on August 25, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 25, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 25, 2026
The Borderline
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the softwood file, seen from both sides of the border.
Elena Voss · Aug 24, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on August 24, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 24, 2026
Amrita Shah · Aug 24, 2026
David Chen · Aug 24, 2026
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 24, 2026