2026
Every Washington Bureau dispatch from January 1 through September 11, kept on this site in full. Pick a month, or start with the latest.
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The Nine
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 · Jan 2, 2026
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West Wing
On January 2, 2026, the presidency turned a Cabinet loyalty test into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Jan 2, 2026
Industrial Policy
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. The TikTok residual is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · Jan 2, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Jan 2, 2026
The Strait
A barrel at US$76 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Jet-fuel hedges are the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Jan 2, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — CBP staffing at the 49th — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Jan 2, 2026
The Nine
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 · Jan 1, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on January 1, 2026 treated the Iran coalition as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Jan 1, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Jan 1, 2026
The Borderline
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 · Jan 1, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on January 1, 2026 was not a speech. It was the strong-dollar problem, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Jan 1, 2026
The Map
From Little Rock to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Jan 1, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent January 1, 2026 arguing over a border supplemental, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Jan 1, 2026
