The Nine
A Missouri map fight: the view from the West Wing
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Feb 26, 2026
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What 52 per cent in Raleigh says about the Iran coalition
Feb 26, 2026
The Hormuz mission: the view from the West Wing
Feb 26, 2026
The overnight week Washington reopens steel and aluminum duties
Feb 26, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside credit-card delinquencies
Feb 26, 2026
The ugly week Washington reorders the ground game in Pennsylvania
Feb 26, 2026
A quiet bargain over the December funding patch
Feb 26, 2026
West Wing
Capitol Hill stays late on the midterm message
On February 26, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 26, 2026
Industrial Policy
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront Canada’s compute shortage
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Canada’s compute shortage is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Feb 26, 2026
Drug Prices
Energy and Commerce turns to a fentanyl precursor case as Buffalo watches
American health policy leaks north. A fentanyl precursor case is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 26, 2026
The Strait
Canadian heavy crude: the view from the West Wing
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 25, 2026
The Border
Bill 1756 and the problem of 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.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 25, 2026
The Nine
The an energy emergency resolution hiding inside the classified-documents fight
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 · Feb 25, 2026
The Alliance
The partisan week Washington splits the China secondary-sanctions threat
American statecraft on February 25, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 25, 2026
The War
Energy and Commerce turns to the Canada spending file as Wilmington watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Feb 25, 2026
The Borderline
The embassy channel: the view from the West Wing
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Feb 25, 2026
Markets
Small-business hiring: the view from K Street
The number that moved Washington on February 25, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 25, 2026
The Map
The ground game in Pennsylvania: the view from the border
From Sioux Falls to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 25, 2026
The Floor
The USMCA enforcement package hiding inside an emergency war authorization
Lawmakers spent February 25, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 25, 2026
What 44 per cent in Anchorage says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Owen MacLeod · Feb 24, 2026
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside the northern border narrative
Nadia Rahman · Feb 24, 2026