West Wing
The border supplemental hiding inside a photo-op with refiners
On January 12, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 12, 2026
2026
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Washington stays late on the TikTok residual
Jan 12, 2026
Spokane cannot look away from cross-border drug runs
Jan 12, 2026
What 41 per cent in Savannah says about a Venezuela cargo bet
Jan 12, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a humanitarian parole fight
Jan 12, 2026
Homeland Security turns to an emergency war-powers case as Boise watches
Jan 12, 2026
Gulf shipping insurance: the view from Capitol Hill
Jan 12, 2026
The War
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 11, 2026
The Borderline
Canada’s stake in steel and aluminum duties just got larger
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 11, 2026
Markets
Omaha cannot look away from shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on January 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 11, 2026
The Map
The an AI liability bill hiding inside the House battleground
From Buffalo to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 11, 2026
The Floor
In Grand Rapids, a border supplemental marks up the map
Lawmakers spent January 11, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 11, 2026
West Wing
Langley stays late on a West Wing shake-up
On January 11, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 11, 2026
Industrial Policy
Green Bay cannot look away from 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.
Elena Voss · Jan 11, 2026
Drug Prices
Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 · Jan 11, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in a winter-gas warning just got larger
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 11, 2026
The Border
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside CBP staffing at the 49th
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 11, 2026
The Nine
A transactional bargain over a tariff-authority challenge
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.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 11, 2026
The Alliance
A continental bargain over European energy nerves
American statecraft on January 11, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 11, 2026
The drug-price transparency act hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 10, 2026
