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 ...

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

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 ...

"Trump’s threats are generating “uncertainty” and “anxiety” in the Panamanian population", says Lina Vega of Transparency ...

A showdown is building between Communist China and the West. From rising tensions over Taiwan, trade, TikTok, fentanyl, ...

Nothing lays bare this self-defeating approach more clearly than his mad proposal that the U.S. take ownership of the Gaza Strip and build beach resorts there.

President Donald Trump is a man with a plan for the canal, namely to force Panama to limit China’s influence on the vital 50-mile shortcut between the Atlantic and the Pacific or risk the United ...