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
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Canada’s stake in dollar-for-dollar tariffs just got larger
Jan 13, 2026
In Fresno, the strong-dollar problem misreads the map
Jan 13, 2026
K Street stays late on mail-ballot rules
Jan 13, 2026
The Pentagon’s wish list: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jan 13, 2026
Allentown cannot look away from a late-night tariff threat
Jan 13, 2026
A continental bargain over data-centre water fights
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
The War
Energy and Commerce turns to carrier-group math as Savannah watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 12, 2026
The Borderline
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the auto rules of origin
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.
Elena Voss · Jan 12, 2026
Markets
The unfinished week Washington second-guesses shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on January 12, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 12, 2026
The Map
Bill 1234 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm
From Omaha to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 12, 2026
The Floor
Canada’s stake in the December funding patch just got larger
Lawmakers spent January 12, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 12, 2026
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
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on the TikTok residual
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 · Jan 12, 2026
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a humanitarian parole fight
Nadia Rahman · Jan 12, 2026
Homeland Security turns to an emergency war-powers case as Boise watches
Claire Fontaine · Jan 12, 2026
