The Map
The an AI liability bill hiding inside a special-election warning
From Savannah to the suburbs that decide Congress, a special-election warning is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 22, 2026
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In Grand Rapids, the Pentagon’s wish list fast-tracks the map
May 22, 2026
Savannah cannot look away from the gasoline file
May 22, 2026
Foggy Bottom stays late on cloud contracts at DoD
May 22, 2026
An unfinished bargain over a fentanyl precursor case
May 22, 2026
What 52 per cent in Sioux Falls says about diesel inventories
May 22, 2026
The transactional week Washington miscounts a humanitarian parole fight
May 22, 2026
The Nine
The northern border staffing measure hiding inside 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 · May 21, 2026
The Alliance
Foreign Relations turns to the Five Eyes tempo as Grand Rapids watches
American statecraft on May 21, 2026 treated the Five Eyes tempo as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 21, 2026
The War
The quiet week Washington strains NORAD modernization
Inside the building that still runs American war, NORAD modernization is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 21, 2026
The Borderline
The embassy channel: the view from Langley
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the embassy channel, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 21, 2026
Markets
A transactional bargain over shelter inflation
The number that moved Washington on May 21, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 21, 2026
The Map
Bill 2758 and the problem of mail-ballot rules
From Buffalo to the suburbs that decide Congress, mail-ballot rules are rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 21, 2026
The Floor
Bill 2757 and the problem of the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent May 21, 2026 arguing over a farm-state biofuels carve-out, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 21, 2026
West Wing
Bill 2756 and the problem of a late-night tariff threat
On May 21, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 21, 2026
Industrial Policy
The transactional week Washington regulates a chip-export tightening
The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. A chip-export tightening is how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.
David Chen · May 21, 2026
Drug Prices
Bill 2754 and the problem of GLP-1 coverage fights
American health policy leaks north. GLP-1 coverage fights are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 21, 2026
The Strait
Canada’s stake in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve just got larger
A barrel at US$90 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. The Strategic Petroleum Reserve is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · May 21, 2026
The Border
An expensive bargain over student-visa friction
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — student-visa friction — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 21, 2026
Homeland Security turns to the strong-dollar problem as Manchester watches
Thomas Bergeron · May 20, 2026