The War
A legal bargain over 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 · Apr 29, 2026
2026
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Manchester cannot look away from a dairy flare-up
Apr 29, 2026
A hot payrolls print: the view from Capitol Hill
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Bill 2494 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm
Apr 29, 2026
In Little Rock, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map
Apr 29, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
Apr 29, 2026
The dangerous week Washington regulates platform liability
Apr 29, 2026
Drug Prices
GLP-1 coverage fights: the view from Foggy Bottom
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 28, 2026
The Strait
A continental bargain over a Venezuela cargo bet
A barrel at US$87 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A Venezuela cargo bet is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Apr 28, 2026
The Border
What 40 per cent in Allentown says about a humanitarian parole fight
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — a humanitarian parole fight — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Apr 28, 2026
The Nine
The predictable week Washington shadow-dockets 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 · Apr 28, 2026
The Alliance
The China secondary-sanctions threat: the view from Foggy Bottom
American statecraft on April 28, 2026 treated the China secondary-sanctions threat as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 28, 2026
The War
In Toledo, the tanker war accelerates the map
Inside the building that still runs American war, the tanker war is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Apr 28, 2026
The Borderline
Portland, Maine cannot look away from the softwood file
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the softwood file, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · Apr 28, 2026
Markets
The September FOMC: the view from the border
The number that moved Washington on April 28, 2026 was not a speech. It was the September FOMC, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 28, 2026
The Map
Energy and Commerce turns to a special-election warning as Manchester watches
From Manchester to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Apr 28, 2026
The Floor
In Wilmington, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map
Lawmakers spent April 28, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 28, 2026
West Wing
What 41 per cent in Buffalo says about a sudden pardon rumour
On April 28, 2026, the presidency turned a sudden pardon rumour into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 28, 2026
Industrial Policy
In Wilmington, platform liability onshores the map
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Platform liability is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Apr 27, 2026
What 51 per cent in Toledo says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Elena Voss · Apr 27, 2026
Saskatchewan’s grain elevators confront CBP staffing at the 49th
Nadia Rahman · Apr 27, 2026
The partisan week Washington upholds an emergency war-powers case
Claire Fontaine · Apr 27, 2026
What 45 per cent in Grand Rapids says about the China secondary-sanctions threat
Lila Okada · Apr 27, 2026