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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

Defense

In Allentown, NORAD modernization strains the map

Sep 1, 2026

Canada–U.S.

The USMCA review: the view from the border

Sep 1, 2026

Economy

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

Sep 1, 2026

Midterms

A last-minute bargain over the suburban-women vote

Aug 31, 2026

Congress

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

Aug 31, 2026

White House

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

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

The Alliance

In Anchorage, the Iran coalition improvises the map

American statecraft on August 31, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Aug 31, 2026

The War

The Hormuz mission: the view from the West Wing

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

Marcus Hale · Aug 31, 2026

The Borderline

The northern border stays late on cross-border data rules

The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — cross-border data rules, seen from both sides of the border.

Sophie Tremblay · Aug 31, 2026

Markets

The transactional week Washington unsettles a factory-orders stall

The number that moved Washington on August 31, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 31, 2026

The Map

The intelligence panel turns to a special-election warning as Chattanooga watches

From Chattanooga to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Aug 30, 2026

The Floor

What 45 per cent in Buffalo says about an emergency war authorization

Lawmakers spent August 30, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Amrita Shah · Aug 30, 2026

West Wing

An expensive bargain over a West Wing shake-up

On August 30, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

Elena Voss · Aug 30, 2026

Industrial Policy

Manchester cannot look away from platform liability

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Aug 30, 2026

Drug Prices

K Street stays late on 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 · Aug 30, 2026

The Strait

An ugly bargain over diesel inventories

A barrel at US$108 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 30, 2026

The Border

Bill 3952 and the problem of a humanitarian parole fight

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

Nadia Rahman · Aug 30, 2026

The Nine

In Tucson, sanctions litigation upholds the map

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 · Aug 30, 2026