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

Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, ...

We were four cats,” recalled Aubrey Baxter with a laugh. It’s an expression that, in Panama, means a handful, and Baxter was ...

On a sunny day last week, a group of American teen-agers marched up and raised a U.S. flag over their high school at Balboa in the Panama Canal Zone. It seemed an everyday thing to do. But in the ...

And while it’s true that racial segregation existed in the Panama Canal Zone, with separate bathrooms, water fountains, and schools, this is not what caused the 1964 riots. Rather, it was a ...

“A man, a plan, a canal — Panama,” so the famous palindrome goes ... a professor at the Scalia School of Law School at George Mason University, told a Senate committee last month.

The Panama Canal Administration Building Marotta walks into for work each day was, until the 1999 handover, inside the US-operated Panama Canal Zone. Just four days prior, Mulino had been couple ...

On Jan. 9, 1964, students protested in the then-U.S. controlled canal zone over not being allowed to fly Panama’s flag at a secondary school there. The protests expanded to general opposition to ...

Panama’s control of the canal that bears its name should not be returned to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s calls of “we’re taking it back,” Panamanians say.