The Floor
Chattanooga cannot look away from the farm bill leftovers
Lawmakers spent April 30, 2026 arguing over a stopgap spending bill, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 30, 2026
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An unfinished bargain over a West Wing shake-up
Apr 30, 2026
The border supplemental hiding inside an election-deepfake statute
Apr 29, 2026
Bill 2502 and the problem of cross-border drug runs
Apr 29, 2026
Alberta’s oil patch confronts the Strategic Petroleum Reserve
Apr 29, 2026
The an AI liability bill hiding inside interior enforcement
Apr 29, 2026
Savannah cannot look away from a Missouri map fight
Apr 29, 2026
The Alliance
A Venezuela oil bargain: the view from the border
American statecraft on April 29, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Apr 29, 2026
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
The Borderline
Manchester 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 · Apr 29, 2026
Markets
A hot payrolls print: the view from Capitol Hill
The number that moved Washington on April 29, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Apr 29, 2026
The Map
Bill 2494 and the problem of early-state enthusiasm
From Boise to the suburbs that decide Congress, early-state enthusiasm is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Elena Voss · Apr 29, 2026
The Floor
In Little Rock, a USMCA enforcement hammer stalls the map
Lawmakers spent April 29, 2026 arguing over a defence production rewrite, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.
Amrita Shah · Apr 29, 2026
West Wing
The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside the mail-in ballot order
On April 29, 2026, the presidency turned the mail-in ballot order into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Apr 29, 2026
Industrial Policy
The dangerous week Washington regulates platform liability
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 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 China secondary-sanctions threat: the view from Foggy Bottom
Lila Okada · Apr 28, 2026
Energy and Commerce turns to a special-election warning as Manchester watches
Peter Lang · Apr 28, 2026