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 Donald Trump has made repeated claims that China “operates” the Panama Canal in recent weeks and has threatened to ...

The aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman remains in the eastern Mediterranean Sea as its crew assesses damage from a ...

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

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 ...

Trump issued an executive order shortly after taking office to rename the gulf, and in February, the federal Board on ...

Ga., would also authorize President Trump to begin negotiations with the Danish Government to acquire Greenland.

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

Dozens of countries have already been directly affected by Trump’s threats of tariffs and the withdrawal of US aid since he ...

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 System.