2026
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331 stories from February 2026 · page 3 of 14
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 · Feb 24, 2026
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West Wing
On February 24, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Feb 24, 2026
Industrial Policy
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Feb 24, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Feb 23, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$78 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Feb 23, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a Safe Third Country strain — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Feb 23, 2026
The Nine
The legal system is now a second front. An emergency war-powers case is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Feb 23, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on February 23, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Feb 23, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Elena Voss · Feb 23, 2026
The Borderline
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 23, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on February 23, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Feb 23, 2026
The Map
From Omaha to the suburbs that decide Congress, a Senate toss-up is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Feb 23, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent February 23, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Feb 23, 2026
