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 ...

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

When President Donald Trump announced last week that the United States will take over the war-blasted Gaza Strip, expel its ...

Construction management software maker Procore (NYSE:PCOR) reported in Q4 CY2024, with sales up 16.2% year on year to $302 ...

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." ...

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

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 ...

Panama became the first Latin American country to officially join China's Belt and Road Initiative. It leaves at a time Trump ...