West Wing
Grand Rapids cannot look away from the Iran endgame
On January 14, 2026, the presidency turned the Iran endgame into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 14, 2026
2026
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Energy and Commerce turns to cloud contracts at DoD as Toledo watches
Jan 14, 2026
Ontario’s auto belt confronts a fentanyl precursor case
Jan 14, 2026
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jan 14, 2026
The legal week Washington reroutes a Safe Third Country strain
Jan 14, 2026
Canada’s stake in an emergency war-powers case just got larger
Jan 14, 2026
The Iran coalition: the view from the West Wing
Jan 14, 2026
The War
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 13, 2026
The Borderline
Canada’s stake in dollar-for-dollar tariffs just got larger
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.
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 13, 2026
Markets
In Fresno, the strong-dollar problem misreads the map
The number that moved Washington on January 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 13, 2026
The Map
K Street stays late on 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 · Jan 13, 2026
The Floor
The Pentagon’s wish list: the view from Foggy Bottom
Lawmakers spent January 13, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 13, 2026
West Wing
Allentown cannot look away from a late-night tariff threat
On January 13, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 13, 2026
Industrial Policy
A continental bargain over data-centre water fights
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 13, 2026
Drug Prices
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront 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 · Jan 13, 2026
The Strait
Diesel inventories: the view from Foggy Bottom
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 13, 2026
The Border
Little Rock cannot look away from interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 13, 2026
The Nine
Sanctions litigation: the view from Langley
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 · Jan 13, 2026
The Alliance
An unfinished bargain over Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on January 13, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 13, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to carrier-group math as Savannah watches
Marcus Hale · Jan 12, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the auto rules of origin
Elena Voss · Jan 12, 2026
The unfinished week Washington second-guesses shelter inflation
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 12, 2026
