Trump is right to lament the lives lost for the creation of the canal. They were mostly Black Caribbean migrant workers, living and dying under Jim Crow conditions that the U.S. imposed in Panama.

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

Theodore Roosevelt modeled himself after Ulysses S. Grant. Franklin Roosevelt was a great admirer of his fifth cousin, Theodore Roosevelt. Lyndon Johnson and Joe Biden aimed to be latter-day ...

President Theodore Roosevelt provided strategic military ... of the young republic—the territory that would become the Panama Canal Zone. Read More: Donald Trump Still Wants to Take Control ...

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

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

Failing to reach terms with Colombia to build a US canal, then US President Theodore Roosevelt sent gunships to Panama’s Atlantic and Pacific coasts to support calls for Panamanian independence.

While repeating Trump’s lies about Panama, Senate leaders from both parties provide fraudulent justifications for a military intervention against the impoverished Central American country.

The U.S. under President Theodore Roosevelt pursued the rights for a canal, even helping the new government of Panama to become independent from Colombia before signing a treaty that granted the U ...

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

The answer is simple: there is no greater or more idealistic symbol of U.S. power in the world than the Panama Canal. As Trump seeks a way to enhance the country's power in the world, leaning on ...