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The Alliance

Energy and Commerce turns to a Venezuela oil bargain as Toledo watches

American statecraft on August 22, 2026 treated a Venezuela oil bargain as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Elena Voss · Aug 22, 2026

Defense

The Canada spending file: the view from Capitol Hill

Aug 22, 2026

Canada–U.S.

Bill 3852 and the problem of the embassy channel

Aug 22, 2026

Economy

The farm-state biofuels carve-out hiding inside a hot payrolls print

Aug 21, 2026

Midterms

Canada’s stake in mail-ballot rules just got larger

Aug 21, 2026

Congress

The predictable week Washington loads a Canada-sensitive auto rider

Aug 21, 2026

White House

In Little Rock, the midterm message doubles down on the map

Aug 21, 2026

Industrial Policy

What 52 per cent in Savannah says about cloud contracts at DoD

The industrial policy coming out of Washington is no longer a slogan. Cloud contracts at DoD are how it shows up in Canadian boardrooms.

David Chen · Aug 21, 2026

Drug Prices

Foreign Relations turns to Medicare drug talks as Des Moines watches

American health policy leaks north. Medicare drug talks are the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 21, 2026

The Strait

What 40 per cent in Anchorage says about diesel inventories

A barrel at US$106 turns every hearing into a kitchen-table argument. Diesel inventories are the latest attempt to look in control.

Owen MacLeod · Aug 21, 2026

The Border

What 47 per cent in Boise says about the northern border narrative

Washington still tells a southern-border story. The northern one — the northern border narrative — is the one Canadian officials actually have to staff.

Nadia Rahman · Aug 21, 2026

The Nine

K Street stays late on the classified-documents fight

The legal system is now a second front. The classified-documents fight is how the administration is trying to win arguments it cannot finish in Congress.

Claire Fontaine · Aug 21, 2026

The Alliance

Spokane cannot look away from Mexico’s balancing act

American statecraft on August 21, 2026 treated Mexico’s balancing act as a lever. Allies, including Canada, are doing the arithmetic.

Lila Okada · Aug 21, 2026

The War

Ways and Means turns to allied basing rights as Grand Rapids watches

Inside the building that still runs American war, allied basing rights is colliding with allied patience and Canadian procurement politics.

Marcus Hale · Aug 21, 2026

The Borderline

K Street stays late on the auto rules of origin

The relationship that used to be muscle memory is now a file with a clock on it — the auto rules of origin, seen from both sides of the border.

Sophie Tremblay · Aug 20, 2026

Markets

What 39 per cent in Allentown says about a hot payrolls print

The number that moved Washington on August 20, 2026 was not a speech. It was a hot payrolls print, and the Canadian reading is harsher than the American one.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 20, 2026

The Map

A quiet bargain over the generic ballot

From Allentown to the suburbs that decide Congress, the generic ballot is rewriting how campaigns talk about the war, prices and the border.

Peter Lang · Aug 20, 2026

The Floor

Manitoba’s manufacturing shops confront the December funding patch

Lawmakers spent August 20, 2026 arguing over a drug-price transparency act, and discovered again that Canada is sitting in the margins of the text.

Elena Voss · Aug 20, 2026

West Wing

Bill 3836 and the problem of a late-night tariff threat

On August 20, 2026, the presidency turned a late-night tariff threat into a test of discipline, loyalty and the midterm calendar.

James Whitfield · Aug 20, 2026

The Fed

Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by National Westminster Bank Plc

Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board announces approval of application by National Westminster Bank Plc.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 20, 2026

Industrial Policy

K Street stays late on the TikTok residual

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 · Aug 20, 2026

Drug Prices

Canada’s stake in mental-health funding just got larger

American health policy leaks north. Mental-health funding is the newest example of a Washington fight with a Canadian waiting room.

Rachel Okonkwo · Aug 20, 2026

The Fed

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with SouthPoint Bancshares, Inc. and announces termination of enforcement action with Deutsche Bank AG, DB USA Corporation, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch

Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement action with SouthPoint Bancshares, Inc. and announces termination of enforcement action with Deutsche Bank AG, DB USA Corporation, and Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 20, 2026

The Fed

Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Regions Bank and former employee of United Community Bank

Maclean’s Washington Bureau on the latest from the capital: Federal Reserve Board issues enforcement actions with former employee of Regions Bank and former employee of United Community Bank.

Thomas Bergeron · Aug 20, 2026