Border Wars
Trump’s Lake Ontario Gambit: When Trade Spats Turn Cartographic
The president’s threat to rechristen a shared Great Lake as “Lake America” escalates a tariff fight with Canada into symbolic territory.
Mara Ellison · 25 Aug 2026
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USMCA
2 original stories in the magazine.
Breaking
How a Tariff Dispute Became a Full-Blown U.S.-Canada Trade War
What began as negotiation over steel, dairy and autos has escalated into retaliatory tariffs and frozen talks, with both sides digging in ahead of Canada’s formal response.
Mara Ellison · 25 Aug 2026