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
2026
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Judiciary turns to the tanker war as Raleigh watches
Mar 20, 2026
Chattanooga cannot look away from a dairy flare-up
Mar 20, 2026
A continental bargain over the strong-dollar problem
Mar 20, 2026
The intelligence panel turns to the suburban-women vote as Boise watches
Mar 20, 2026
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Mar 20, 2026
The dangerous week Washington signals a late-night tariff threat
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
The Nine
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside a tariff-authority challenge
The legal system is now a second front. A tariff-authority challenge is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Mar 20, 2026
The Alliance
Fresno cannot look away from Mexico’s balancing act
American statecraft on March 19, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Elena Voss · Mar 19, 2026
The War
Foggy Bottom stays late on a munitions shortage
Inside the building that still runs American war, a munitions shortage is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Mar 19, 2026
The Borderline
Portland, Maine 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 19, 2026
Markets
The overnight week Washington misreads small-business hiring
The number that moved Washington on March 19, 2026 was not a speech. It was small-business hiring, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Mar 19, 2026
The Map
The mail-in voting statute hiding inside the House battleground
From Savannah to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Mar 19, 2026
The Floor
Bill 2013 and the problem of a Canada-sensitive auto rider
Lawmakers spent March 19, 2026 arguing over an energy emergency resolution, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Mar 19, 2026
West Wing
Canada’s stake in the mail-in ballot order just got larger
On March 19, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Mar 19, 2026
What 46 per cent in Allentown says about an election-deepfake statute
David Chen · Mar 19, 2026
What 49 per cent in Grand Rapids says about the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Owen MacLeod · Mar 19, 2026
