From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 25, 2026

The Floor

The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside an emergency war authorization

Lawmakers spent February 25, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 25, 2026

West Wing

What 48 per cent in Anchorage says about the midterm message

On February 25, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 25, 2026

Industrial Policy

An unfinished bargain over an election-deepfake statute

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Feb 25, 2026

Drug Prices

In Portland, Maine, hospital staffing narrows the map

American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Elena Voss · Feb 24, 2026

The Strait

What 44 per cent in Anchorage says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve

A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Feb 24, 2026

The Border

The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the northern border narrative

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Feb 24, 2026

The Nine

The intelligence panel turns to the classified-documents fight as Buffalo watches

The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Feb 24, 2026

The Alliance

Bill 1742 and the problem of the China secondary-sanctions threat

American statecraft on February 24, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Feb 24, 2026

The War

A continental bargain over carrier-group math

Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Feb 24, 2026

The Borderline

The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside dollar-for-dollar tariffs

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 · Feb 24, 2026

Markets

Bill 1739 and the problem of shelter inflation

The number that moved Washington on February 24, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Feb 24, 2026

The Map

Suburban women: the view from the West Wing

From Wilmington to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Feb 24, 2026

The Floor

New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts a USMCA enforcement hammer

Lawmakers spent February 24, 2026 arguing over a northern border staffing measure, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Feb 24, 2026

West Wing

Quebec’s aluminum towns confront the midterm message

On February 24, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Feb 24, 2026

Industrial Policy

The dangerous week Washington onshores cloud contracts at DoD

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Feb 24, 2026

Drug Prices

The last-minute week Washington reprices 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 · Feb 23, 2026