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The Alliance

Armed Services turns to a Venezuela oil bargain as Chattanooga watches

American statecraft on September 2, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Sep 2, 2026

Defense

A predictable bargain over carrier-group math

Sep 2, 2026

Canada–U.S.

What 41 per cent in Fresno says about dollar-for-dollar tariffs

Sep 2, 2026

Economy

What 38 per cent in Toledo says about small-business hiring

Sep 2, 2026

Midterms

Raleigh cannot look away from the suburban-women vote

Sep 1, 2026

Congress

The stopgap spending bill hiding inside an emergency war authorization

Sep 1, 2026

White House

What 46 per cent in Allentown says about the midterm message

Sep 1, 2026

Industrial Policy

The West Wing 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 · Sep 1, 2026

Drug Prices

What 45 per cent in Spokane says about 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 · Sep 1, 2026

The Strait

K Street stays late on the Hormuz risk premium

A barrel at US$108 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Sep 1, 2026

The Border

A last-minute bargain over work-permit backlogs

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

Nadia Rahman · Sep 1, 2026

The Nine

Green Bay cannot look away from 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 · Sep 1, 2026

The Alliance

What 51 per cent in Anchorage says about a UN corridor fight

American statecraft on September 1, 2026 treated a UN corridor fight as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Sep 1, 2026

The War

In Allentown, NORAD modernization strains the map

Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Elena Voss · Sep 1, 2026

The Borderline

The USMCA review: the view from the border

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 · Sep 1, 2026

Markets

In Little Rock, the strong-dollar problem front-runs the map

The number that moved Washington on September 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Sep 1, 2026

The Map

A last-minute bargain over the suburban-women vote

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

Peter Lang · Aug 31, 2026

The Floor

Canada’s stake in the Pentagon’s wish list just got larger

Lawmakers spent August 31, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Aug 31, 2026

West Wing

What 49 per cent in Chattanooga says about a late-night tariff threat

On August 31, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Aug 31, 2026

Industrial Policy

A transactional bargain over 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.

David Chen · Aug 31, 2026

Drug Prices

Washington stays late on 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 · Aug 31, 2026

The Strait

Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront the Hormuz risk premium

A barrel at US$108 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 31, 2026

The Border

Energy and Commerce turns to student-visa friction as Portland, Maine watches

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

Nadia Rahman · Aug 31, 2026

The Nine

Bill 3963 and the problem of 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 · Aug 31, 2026