The War
In Little Rock, NORAD modernization rehearses the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jul 2, 2026
2026
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A transactional bargain over cross-border data rules
Jul 2, 2026
The legal week Washington overheats a hot payrolls print
Jul 2, 2026
The predictable week Washington reorders the House battleground
Jul 2, 2026
The defence production rewrite hiding inside a USMCA enforcement hammer
Jul 2, 2026
Canada’s stake in the mail-in ballot order just got larger
Jul 1, 2026
The quiet week Washington onshores platform liability
Jul 1, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 3246 and the problem of 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 · Jul 1, 2026
The Strait
Jet-fuel hedges: the view from Langley
A barrel at US$97 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jul 1, 2026
The Border
Savannah cannot look away from asylum clock rules
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jul 1, 2026
The Nine
The dangerous week Washington upholds the mail-in voting order
The legal system is now a second front. The mail-in voting order is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jul 1, 2026
The Alliance
The expensive week Washington courts the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on July 1, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jul 1, 2026
The War
The tanker war: the view from K Street
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jul 1, 2026
The Borderline
Steel and aluminum duties: the view from Capitol Hill
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 · Jul 1, 2026
Markets
The intelligence panel turns to a factory-orders stall as Boise watches
The number that moved Washington on July 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 1, 2026
The Map
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the suburban-women vote
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jul 1, 2026
The Floor
Foggy Bottom stays late on a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Lawmakers spent July 1, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jul 1, 2026
West Wing
What 41 per cent in Tucson says about a West Wing shake-up
On June 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jun 30, 2026
Industrial Policy
Ways and Means turns to a chip-export tightening as Anchorage watches
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 · Jun 30, 2026
Armed Services turns to cross-border drug runs as Boise watches
Rachel Okonkwo · Jun 30, 2026
What 50 per cent in Chattanooga says about the mail-in voting order
Claire Fontaine · Jun 30, 2026
