West Wing
The gasoline file: the view from Foggy Bottom
On January 18, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Jan 18, 2026
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Buffalo cannot look away from a chip-export tightening
Jan 18, 2026
Bill 1302 and the problem of a vaccine-schedule fight
Jan 18, 2026
The ugly week Washington floods the Hormuz risk premium
Jan 18, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to interior enforcement as Boise watches
Jan 18, 2026
What 50 per cent in Spokane says about sanctions litigation
Jan 18, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to Mexico’s balancing act as Portland, Maine watches
Jan 18, 2026
The War
Capitol Hill stays late on the tanker war
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 18, 2026
The Borderline
A transactional bargain over steel and aluminum duties
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — steel and aluminum duties, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 17, 2026
Markets
Bill 1295 and the problem of a factory-orders stall
The number that moved Washington on January 17, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 17, 2026
The Map
Quebec’s aluminum towns confront mail-ballot rules
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 17, 2026
The Floor
A last-minute bargain over the debt-limit shadow play
Lawmakers spent January 17, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 17, 2026
West Wing
Canada’s stake in the midterm message just got larger
On January 17, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 17, 2026
Industrial Policy
Bill 1291 and the problem of a chip-export tightening
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 17, 2026
Drug Prices
Mental-health funding: the view from K Street
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 17, 2026
The Strait
In Little Rock, Gulf Coast refining strains the map
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 17, 2026
The Border
Langley stays late on 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 · Jan 17, 2026
The Nine
In Raleigh, a tariff-authority challenge upholds the map
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.
Elena Voss · Jan 17, 2026
The Alliance
An ugly bargain over European energy nerves
American statecraft on January 17, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 17, 2026
