2026
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The Map
From Des Moines to the suburbs that decide Congress, the House battleground is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 18, 2026
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May 17, 2026
The Nine
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.
Elena Voss · May 17, 2026
The Alliance
American statecraft on May 17, 2026 treated Gulf shipping insurance as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · May 17, 2026
The War
Inside the building that still runs American war, an Arctic radar gap is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · May 17, 2026
The Borderline
The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the USMCA review, seen from both sides of the border.
Sophie Tremblay · May 17, 2026
Markets
The number that moved Washington on May 17, 2026 was not a speech. It was shelter inflation, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · May 17, 2026
The Map
From Raleigh to the suburbs that decide Congress, the suburban-women vote is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · May 17, 2026
The Floor
Lawmakers spent May 17, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · May 17, 2026
West Wing
On May 17, 2026, the presidency turned the midterm message into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · May 17, 2026
Industrial Policy
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 · May 17, 2026
Drug Prices
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · May 17, 2026
The Strait
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 17, 2026
The Border
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — asylum clock rules — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · May 16, 2026
