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 ...

It’s not clear if Canada wants to become a U.S. state, though technically it would be possible without its buy-in ...

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 ...

President Donald Trump has repeatedly called for Canada to become the 51st US state, effectively erasing the 5,525-mile ...

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

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

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

The body of water formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico has now been formally renamed in the Geographic Names Information ...