2026
Every Washington Bureau dispatch from January 1 through September 11, kept on this site in full. Pick a month, or start with the latest.
3,036 complete stories · twelve desks · no off-site jump
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Watch
Eyes of the Machine plays at 19:00 on 22 September. Revolution of Our Times follows at 19:00 on the 23rd. Both sit in the Watch centre as special screenings.
Lila Okada · Sep 15, 2026
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The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Sep 11, 2026
The Borderline
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.
Elena Voss · Sep 11, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on September 11, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Sep 11, 2026
The Map
From Portland, Maine to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Sep 11, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent September 11, 2026 arguing over an AI liability bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Sep 11, 2026
West Wing
On September 10, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Sep 10, 2026
Industrial Policy
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Sep 10, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Sep 10, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$109 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Sep 10, 2026
The Border
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 · Sep 10, 2026
West Wing
Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: How the WNBA became a political prop in the culture wars.
James Whitfield · Sep 10, 2026
The Nine
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 · Sep 10, 2026
James Whitfield · Sep 10, 2026
Peter Lang · Sep 10, 2026
Peter Lang · Sep 10, 2026