In this episode of Need to Know, host John Milewski speaks with Benjamin Gedan, Director of the Wilson Center's Latin America Program, about the geopolitical and economic significance of the Panama ...

Bing Maps still shows "Gulf of Mexico" rather than "Gulf of Mexico," which appears on Google Maps and Apple Maps.

The Trump administration is framing the President’s vow to take back the Panama Canal as an economic investment, not “imperialistic expansion." ...

Thanks to deregulatory, laissez faire maritime policy, the U.S. has abandoned the oceans, allowing China and foreign shipping ...

Panama is in danger of becoming a case study of how an American hard-power win could become a soft-power loss. America did ...

The Trump administration’s deployment to Latin America offered a nugget of insight into the president’s unusual worldview.

The Trump administration needs to figure out the proper balance between coercion and diplomacy, and how it affects ...

Donald Trump has a special affinity for William McKinley, the former American president who was struck down by an assassin’s ...

Rarely do Panamanians unite on political topics, but threats to the ownership of the canal go to the heart of national ...

Excerpts from recent editorials in the United States and abroad: ___ Feb. 7 The Washington Post says Trump's treatment of allies puts America's world standing in jeopardy The Trump administration’s ...