A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

In his 1994 book Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger wrote about the two dominant strains of American foreign policy: realism as ...

President Trump has thrown down the gauntlet to the Panamanian government-threatening to retake the canal, by force if ...

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

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 ...

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

In recent years the operation of the Panama Canal has been increasingly affected by changes in rainfall, and some data ...

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." ...

Panama on Thursday rejected the United States' claim of securing free passage for its government vessels through the Panama Canal, while bowing to US pressure to quit a key Chinese project.

The 1903 agreement between the U.S. and Panama granted the U.S. control of the Canal Zone, but not ownership, as Panama retained sovereignty. The agreement was a result of Panama's independence ...