The Nine
K Street stays late on 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 · Feb 28, 2026
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Energy and Commerce turns to European energy nerves as Little Rock watches
Feb 28, 2026
New Brunswick’s energy corridor confronts the tanker war
Feb 28, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to dollar-for-dollar tariffs as Des Moines watches
Feb 28, 2026
What 40 per cent in Buffalo says about small-business hiring
Feb 28, 2026
In Toledo, mail-ballot rules narrow the map
Feb 28, 2026
In Spokane, a USMCA enforcement hammer defangs the map
Feb 28, 2026
West Wing
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
On February 28, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on the AI safety rulebook
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The AI safety rulebook is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Feb 28, 2026
Drug Prices
In Des Moines, an FDA nomination politicizes the map
American health policy leaks north. An FDA nomination is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 27, 2026
The Strait
Energy and Commerce turns to Gulf Coast refining as Fresno watches
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Gulf Coast refining is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 27, 2026
The Border
Des Moines cannot look away from student-visa friction
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — student-visa friction — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Elena Voss · Feb 27, 2026
The Nine
Energy and Commerce turns to the mail-in voting order as Portland, Maine watches
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 · Feb 27, 2026
The Alliance
What 46 per cent in Anchorage says about the Five Eyes tempo
American statecraft on February 27, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 27, 2026
The War
Nova Scotia’s navy town confronts an Arctic radar gap
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 27, 2026
The Borderline
What 43 per cent in Buffalo says about a dairy flare-up
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — a dairy flare-up, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 27, 2026
Markets
Capitol Hill stays late on shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on February 27, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 27, 2026
The Map
Des Moines cannot look away from mail-ballot rules
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 27, 2026
The Floor
What 40 per cent in Sioux Falls says about a border supplemental
Lawmakers spent February 27, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 27, 2026
