Even if Trump views these as a massive game of Monopoly, the other players do not. “Trump might have looked at Greenland as a ...

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." ...

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 U.S. is also the leading source of foreign direct investment in Panama. According to the CRS, China leads (slightly) the ...

Following Donald Trump’s repeated claims that the US needs to “ take back ” the Panama canal from Chinese control, the US ...

His appetite for territorial expansion has not waned. Before he even returned to the White House, Donald Trump set his sights ...

The United States is a VAST country. And this means there's a lot of geography attached to it! Unfortunately, not every fun geography fact about the United States can fit within its own episode. So ...

President Trump says the canal authority is overcharging. Recent increases are attributed in part to drought, maintenance ...

In his inaugural address last month, Donald Trump described the US decision to hand full control of the canal to Panama, in 1999, as "a foolish gift that should have never been made". Trump also ...

Ahead of U.S. top diplomat Marco Rubio's visit to the country, US envoy Mauricio Claver-Carone put the onus on Panama to ...