The Nine
In Little Rock, a Missouri map fight clears the map
The legal system is now a second front. A Missouri map fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.
Claire Fontaine · Aug 15, 2026
2026
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A legal bargain over a Venezuela oil bargain
Aug 15, 2026
Foreign Relations turns to the Hormuz mission as Raleigh watches
Aug 14, 2026
Canada’s stake in cross-border data rules just got larger
Aug 14, 2026
Shelter inflation: the view from Langley
Aug 14, 2026
Judiciary turns to the generic ballot as Wilmington watches
Aug 14, 2026
What 40 per cent in Portland, Maine says about the Pentagon’s wish list
Aug 14, 2026
West Wing
The border supplemental hiding inside a late-night tariff threat
On August 14, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.
James Whitfield · Aug 14, 2026
Industrial Policy
The last-minute week Washington weaponizes 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 · Aug 14, 2026
Watch
Watch books The Hongkonger for 21 August
The bureau’s video desk will screen Ron Holwerda’s Jimmy Lai portrait on 21 August. The film plays in the Watch centre, on this site.
Lila Okada · Aug 14, 2026
Drug Prices
The intelligence panel turns to hospital staffing as Anchorage watches
American health policy leaks north. Hospital staffing is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.
Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 14, 2026
The Strait
Washington stays late on a winter-gas warning
A barrel at US$105 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. A winter-gas warning is the latest attempt to look in control.
Owen MacLeod · Aug 14, 2026
The Border
Canada’s stake in interior enforcement just got larger
Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — interior enforcement — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.
Nadia Rahman · Aug 14, 2026
The Nine
What 42 per cent in Fresno says about the mail-in voting order
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 · Aug 14, 2026
The Alliance
What 38 per cent in Green Bay says about European energy nerves
American statecraft on August 14, 2026 treated European energy nerves as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.
Lila Okada · Aug 14, 2026
The War
The Canada spending file: the view from K Street
Inside the building that still runs American war, the Canada spending file is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.
Marcus Hale · Aug 13, 2026
The Borderline
What 48 per cent in Buffalo says about the USMCA review
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 · Aug 13, 2026
Markets
A partisan bargain over a factory-orders stall
The number that moved Washington on August 13, 2026 was not a speech. It was a factory-orders stall, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 13, 2026
The Map
Ontario’s auto belt confronts the ground game in Pennsylvania
From Anchorage to the suburbs that decide Congress, the ground game in Pennsylvania is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.
Peter Lang · Aug 13, 2026
The expensive week Washington regulates a chip-export tightening
David Chen · Aug 13, 2026
Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with former employee of Regions Bank
Thomas Bergeron · Aug 13, 2026
