West Wing
Washington stays late on a West Wing shake-up
On January 16, 2026, the presidency turned a West Wing shake-up into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 16, 2026
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Canada’s compute shortage: the view from K Street
Jan 16, 2026
Bill 1278 and the problem of a vaccine-schedule fight
Jan 16, 2026
Bill 1277 and the problem of diesel inventories
Jan 16, 2026
The border supplemental hiding inside a humanitarian parole fight
Jan 16, 2026
Capitol Hill stays late on a birthright petition
Jan 16, 2026
In Omaha, a UN corridor fight recalculates the map
Jan 16, 2026
The War
Grand Rapids cannot look away from allied basing rights
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 15, 2026
The Borderline
K Street stays late on 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 · Jan 15, 2026
Markets
The September FOMC: the view from Langley
The number that moved Washington on January 15, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 15, 2026
The Map
Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the suburban-women file
From Wilmington to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Jan 15, 2026
The Floor
Canada’s stake in the Pentagon’s wish list just got larger
Lawmakers spent January 15, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 15, 2026
West Wing
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
On January 15, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 15, 2026
Industrial Policy
Washington stays late on an election-deepfake statute
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. An election-deepfake statute is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 15, 2026
Drug Prices
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside cross-border drug runs
American health policy leaks north. Cross-border drug runs is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 15, 2026
The Strait
Judiciary turns to Canadian heavy crude as Sioux Falls watches
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Canadian heavy crude is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 15, 2026
The Border
Spokane cannot look away from interior enforcement
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 15, 2026
The Nine
Boise cannot look away from sanctions litigation
The legal system is now a second front. Sanctions litigation is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Jan 15, 2026
The Alliance
The legal week Washington recalculates European energy nerves
American statecraft on January 15, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 15, 2026
