As the first president of the United States, George Washington likely would be dismayed to see the bickering that divides ...

Readers discuss some of President Donald Trump’s decisions, such as downsizing the government. It boils my blood to hear ...

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 ...

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

A recent drought in Panama was so severe that the canal had to reduce traffic. How is climate change impacting Panama -- and ...

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

On this episode Jonny Dymond speaks to Julie Greene, a professor of American studies at the University of Maryland, about the storied history of the Panama Canal. And the BBC’s North America business ...

The McKinley Tariff of 1890 raised import duties to nearly 50% on average, up from around 38% previously. As the House Ways and Means Committee chairman, McKinley argued that high tariffs were ...

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

The number of vessels that passed through the Panama Canal, the world's second busiest waterway, fell to an average of 32.6 ...

As Donald Trump embarks on his second term as the US President, the nation faces a turbulent landscape of climate disasters ...

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