Why the Suez Canal Still Matters to the American Economy, and Why Washington Keeps Investing in Cairo
The Suez Canal is not an American waterway, and no American ship built it or maintains it. Yet few pieces of infrastructure outside the United States affect the American economy as directly as this…
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