West Wing
What 39 per cent in Grand Rapids says about the mail-in ballot order
On July 7, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jul 7, 2026
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The TikTok residual: the view from the West Wing
Jul 6, 2026
A vaccine-schedule fight: the view from Foggy Bottom
Jul 6, 2026
Gulf Coast refining: the view from the West Wing
Jul 6, 2026
What 47 per cent in Spokane says about student-visa friction
Jul 6, 2026
The partisan week Washington shadow-dockets sanctions litigation
Jul 6, 2026
Alberta’s oil patch confronts Mexico’s balancing act
Jul 6, 2026
The War
Ways and Means turns to the Canada spending file as Raleigh watches
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jul 6, 2026
The Borderline
Tucson 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 · Jul 6, 2026
Markets
Canada’s stake in small-business hiring just got larger
The number that moved Washington on July 6, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 6, 2026
The Map
The West Wing stays late on the House battleground
From Fresno to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jul 6, 2026
The Floor
An unfinished bargain over the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent July 6, 2026 arguing over a USMCA enforcement package, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jul 6, 2026
West Wing
A late-night tariff threat: the view from K Street
On July 5, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jul 5, 2026
Industrial Policy
The last-minute week Washington subsidizes data-centre water fights
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Data-centre water fights are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jul 5, 2026
Drug Prices
The intelligence panel turns to cross-border drug runs as Little Rock watches
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jul 5, 2026
The Strait
In Anchorage, a winter-gas warning empties the map
A barrel at US$98 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Elena Voss · Jul 5, 2026
The Border
Green Bay cannot look away from a Safe Third Country strain
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 · Jul 5, 2026
The Nine
Foggy Bottom stays late on agency-deferral leftovers
The legal system is now a second front. Agency-deferral leftovers is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jul 5, 2026
The Alliance
Foreign Relations turns to Mexico’s balancing act as Portland, Maine watches
American statecraft on July 5, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jul 5, 2026
The sanctions package aimed at Tehran hiding inside a hot payrolls print
Thomas Bergeron · Jul 5, 2026
