The Panama Canal is one of the most remarkable engineering feats in history, revolutionizing global trade and travel by ...

In December 2024, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump began repeatedly calling for the return of the Panama Canal to the United States. In a Dec. 21, 2024 post on his social media platform Truth ...

news | Politics A history of the Panama Canal — and why Trump can’t take it back on his own The president-elect is threatening to take back the waterway when he takes office.

A history of the Panama Canal — and why the US can't just take it back Unless he goes to war with Panama, Donald Trump can't reassert control over a canal the U.S. agreed to cede in the 1970s.

Panama’s voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.

Building the canal cost about $375 million, making it the most expensive construction project in U.S. history at that time, according to the Panama Canal Authority.

In a column titled “The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide,” Dvorak explains how the legacy of the U.S.-built shipping route “includes segregation and violence.” ...

The troubled history of the Panama Canal’s racial and social divide President-elect Donald Trump wants to retake control of the major shipping route, whose legacy includes segregation and violence.

Panama's voters approved a 2006 referendum authorizing a major expansion of the canal to accommodate larger modern cargo ships. The expansion took until 2016 and cost more than $5.2 billion.