West Wing
Langley stays late on a West Wing shake-up
On January 11, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 11, 2026
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Green Bay cannot look away from a chip-export tightening
Jan 11, 2026
Chattanooga cannot look away from mental-health funding
Jan 11, 2026
Canada’s stake in a winter-gas warning just got larger
Jan 11, 2026
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside CBP staffing at the 49th
Jan 11, 2026
A transactional bargain over a tariff-authority challenge
Jan 11, 2026
A continental bargain over European energy nerves
Jan 11, 2026
The War
What 39 per cent in Manchester says about the Hormuz mission
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Hormuz mission is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 10, 2026
The Borderline
The drug-price transparency act 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 · Jan 10, 2026
Markets
In Chattanooga, a hot payrolls print prices in the map
The number that moved Washington on January 10, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 10, 2026
The Map
Capitol Hill stays late on the suburban-women vote
From Allentown to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 10, 2026
The Floor
In Boise, the Pentagon’s wish list rewrites the map
Lawmakers spent January 10, 2026 arguing over a mail-in voting statute, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 10, 2026
West Wing
A continental bargain over the mail-in ballot order
On January 10, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 10, 2026
Industrial Policy
Banking turns to the TikTok residual as Toledo watches
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 · Jan 10, 2026
Drug Prices
Little Rock cannot look away from 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 · Jan 10, 2026
The Strait
In Omaha, Canadian heavy crude rations the map
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 10, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in interior enforcement just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 10, 2026
The Nine
Armed Services turns to agency-deferral leftovers as Little Rock watches
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 10, 2026
The Alliance
Mexico’s balancing act: the view from Foggy Bottom
American statecraft on January 9, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Jan 9, 2026
The expensive week Washington hardens dollar-for-dollar tariffs
Sophie Tremblay · Jan 9, 2026
The defence production rewrite hiding inside credit-card delinquencies
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 9, 2026
