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 ...

Bing Maps will rename the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America, following in the footsteps of Google Maps and Apple Maps.

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 ...

It has also always been one face of American empire. Established during the Cold War to counter Soviet influence, the agency ...

On Sunday, Trump made a point of signing his proclamation midflight as he traveled above this body of water en route to New ...

Some of Trumps threats to take over Greenland, Canada, and the Panama Canal are based on actual U.S. strategic goals. Others ...

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

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.

The region has long been neglected in Washington, but a “Monroe 2.0” foreign policy could backfire for the US.