What would happen if the Panama Canal became completely unusable? This waterway is essential for global trade, and a shutdown ...

The Panama Canal crisis isn’t over yet, and it may be only the first stage of a wider conflict about whether the U.S. can contain China’s control of the world’s commercial maritime logistics network.

ANDREW NATSIOS served as Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development during the George W. Bush ...

The Trump Administration threatening partners in The America's, may prove to be short term tactical approach, will not prove ...

The Panama Canal remains one of the most crucial trade routes in the world, and the U.S. has a long history of involvement in it. Even though the canal was handed over to Panama in 1999, many believe ...

President Donald Trump’s first four weeks in office are eliciting both scorn and praise from around the country and in ...

Trump’s threat occurs as Panama became an elected member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term in ...

As the first president of the United States, George Washington likely would be dismayed to see the bickering that divides this nation more than 200 years after his tenure. At least, that’s what Dale ...

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 ...

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and how does that ripple out to the global economy?

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 ...