West Wing
The intelligence panel turns to the gasoline file as Spokane watches
On February 5, 2026, the presidency turned the gasoline file into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 5, 2026
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In Des Moines, an election-deepfake statute audits the map
Feb 5, 2026
Armed Services turns to a vaccine-schedule fight as Allentown watches
Feb 5, 2026
In Spokane, Canadian heavy crude unlocks the map
Feb 5, 2026
Sioux Falls cannot look away from a humanitarian parole fight
Feb 5, 2026
A Missouri map fight: the view from the border
Feb 5, 2026
Bill 1514 and the problem of the Five Eyes tempo
Feb 5, 2026
The War
Grand Rapids cannot look away from the Hormuz mission
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 5, 2026
The Borderline
An unfinished bargain over the USMCA review
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the USMCA review, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 5, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in the gasoline shock just got larger
The number that moved Washington on February 5, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 5, 2026
The Map
Canada’s stake in a Senate toss-up just got larger
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 5, 2026
The Floor
The intelligence panel turns to the farm bill leftovers as Little Rock watches
Lawmakers spent February 4, 2026 arguing over a sanctions package aimed at Tehran, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 4, 2026
West Wing
Toledo cannot look away from a Cabinet loyalty test
On February 4, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
Elena Voss · Feb 4, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Buffalo, the TikTok residual subsidizes the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The TikTok residual is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Feb 4, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 1506 and the problem of cross-border drug runs
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 4, 2026
The Strait
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve: the view from Capitol Hill
A barrel at US$77 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 4, 2026
The Border
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a Safe Third Country strain
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 4, 2026
The Nine
Ways and Means turns to sanctions litigation as Little Rock watches
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 · Feb 4, 2026
The Alliance
The expensive week Washington courts Gulf shipping insurance
American statecraft on February 4, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 4, 2026
