The United States built the canal, one of the engineering marvels of the day, after helping Panama achieve independence from Colombia. Roosevelt the nationalist envisioned the canal as an ...

There is an echo of McKinley’s spirit and Roosevelt’s strategy in the early Trump White House. For a president who said that ...

The Trump administration is taking proactive measures to regain control over the Panama Canal and reduce Chinese influence at ...

Trump’s threat occurs as Panama became an elected member of the United Nations Security Council for a two-year term in ...

The critical waterway has a complex history. Why does Trump want it back? And what does China have to do with it?

The Panama Canal has taken on an unexpected significance in Trump’s second term. So what is it? Why is it important? And why ...

The Panama Canal is back in the headlines after President Donald Trump raised political and security concerns over the future ...

The popular telling of the canal’s origin is a story of America’s technical prowess, of man’s triumph over nature and of the ...

In his 1994 book Diplomacy, Henry Kissinger wrote about the two dominant strains of American foreign policy: realism as ...

The US government bought the French canal concession, but Panama was then a province of Colombia, and the US could not reach terms with its government. In 1903, the then-president, Theodore Roosevelt, ...

Is the future of the Panama Canal under threat? Discover why the canal is struggling and the projects proposed to replace it.