The Strait
Ways and Means turns to the Hormuz risk premium as Wilmington watches
A barrel at US$82 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 2, 2026
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The predictable week Washington tightens asylum clock rules
Apr 2, 2026
The expensive week Washington shadow-dockets a tariff-authority challenge
Apr 2, 2026
The strategic petroleum rider hiding inside Mexico’s balancing act
Apr 2, 2026
Bill 2173 and the problem of allied basing rights
Apr 2, 2026
The West Wing stays late on a dairy flare-up
Apr 1, 2026
A partisan bargain over the September FOMC
Apr 1, 2026
The Map
An overnight bargain over mail-ballot rules
From Boise to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 1, 2026
The Floor
Canada’s stake in a border supplemental just got larger
Lawmakers spent April 1, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 1, 2026
West Wing
In Boise, a photo-op with refiners sidelines the map
On April 1, 2026, the presidency turned a photo-op with refiners into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 1, 2026
Industrial Policy
A chip-export tightening: the view from Capitol Hill
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 1, 2026
Drug Prices
Capitol Hill stays late on GLP-1 coverage fights
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Apr 1, 2026
The Strait
Banking turns to the Hormuz risk premium as Spokane watches
A barrel at US$82 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Hormuz risk premium is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 1, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in a Safe Third Country strain just got larger
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 · Apr 1, 2026
The Nine
A dangerous bargain over 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 · Apr 1, 2026
The Alliance
European energy nerves: the view from Foggy Bottom
American statecraft on April 1, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 1, 2026
The War
The ugly week Washington strains carrier-group math
Inside the building that still runs American war, carrier-group math is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 1, 2026
The Borderline
A last-minute bargain over 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 · Mar 31, 2026
Markets
What 42 per cent in Tucson says about the gasoline shock
The number that moved Washington on March 31, 2026 was not a speech. It was the gasoline shock, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 31, 2026