We’ve already worked through the theory that Donald Trump is reviving the expansionist foreign policy of Gilded Age America ...

The U.S., meanwhile, controlled a roughly 10-mile zone centered on the canal’s center line but excluding both Panama City and Colon, the country’s two largest cities and, respectively, the ...

The area around the Panama Canal was known as the Canal Zone and for a hundred years it had belonged to Uncle Sam. A segregated apartheid zone, roughly half the size of Rhode Island, smack dab in ...

Over the past few years, the Panama Canal has been dealing with a lot of news, and most of it hasn't been particularly great. Some of it is, of course, beyond anyone's control.

The Trump White House has directed the U.S. military to draw up options for increasing the American troop presence in Panama to achieve President Trump’s goal of “reclaiming” the Panama Canal.

U.S. President Donald Trump has hailed a deal led by U.S. firm BlackRock to buy most of the $22.8 billion ports business of Hong Kong conglomerate CK Hutchison , including assets it holds along ...

The 51-mile canal is a key to both the movement of international trade and U.S. military vessels. About 4% of the world’s maritime trade and more than 40% of U.S. container traffic traverses canal.