The Map
An ugly bargain over the House battleground
From Portland, Maine to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 21, 2026
2026
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Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront a border supplemental
Mar 21, 2026
In Savannah, the mail-in ballot order presses the map
Mar 21, 2026
A chip-export tightening: the view from Capitol Hill
Mar 21, 2026
What 46 per cent in Chattanooga says about a vaccine-schedule fight
Mar 21, 2026
What 42 per cent in Toledo says about jet-fuel hedges
Mar 21, 2026
Bill 2032 and the problem of a humanitarian parole fight
Mar 21, 2026
The Nine
The partisan week Washington upholds 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 · Mar 21, 2026
The Alliance
Gulf shipping insurance: the view from Foggy Bottom
American statecraft on March 21, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Mar 21, 2026
The War
Judiciary turns to the tanker war as Raleigh watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 20, 2026
The Borderline
Chattanooga cannot look away from 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 · Mar 20, 2026
Markets
A continental bargain over the strong-dollar problem
The number that moved Washington on March 20, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 20, 2026
The Map
The intelligence panel turns to the suburban-women vote as Boise watches
From Boise to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 20, 2026
The Floor
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Lawmakers spent March 20, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 20, 2026
West Wing
The dangerous week Washington signals a late-night tariff threat
On March 20, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 20, 2026
Industrial Policy
What 52 per cent in Anchorage says about 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 · Mar 20, 2026
Drug Prices
An unfinished bargain over hospital staffing
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Mar 20, 2026
The Strait
Capitol Hill stays late on a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$80 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Mar 20, 2026
The Border
In Manchester, interior enforcement tightens the map
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Mar 20, 2026
