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A US flag flies off the stern of a tour boat at the Port of Los Angele in California on July 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
Democracy
Democracy
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A thumbs up or 'Like' icon at the Facebook main campus in Menlo Park, California, May 15, 2012. (Image flipped) (ROBYN BECK/AFP/Getty Images)
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Reinaldo Arenas poses while at home in Paris, France during June of 1988. (Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
In the Media
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Demonstrators protest the election of President elect Donald Trump in Denver, Colorado, November 10, 2016. (JASON CONNOLLY/AFP/Getty Images)
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Author Ayaan Hirsi Ali, one of the 15 prominent thinkers labeled an "anti-Muslim extremist" by SPLC, attends a book presentation on April 20, 2015 in Berlin, Germany. (Christian Marquardt/Getty Images)
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Kim Il Sung Square, Pyongyang, North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea), Asia. (Gavin Hellier / robertharding)
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A South Korean student waves national flags during a rally on February 22, 2014 in Seoul, South Korea. (Chung Sung-Jun/Getty Images)
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His holiness the Dalai Lama attends the third day of Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm, Pilton on June 28, 2015 in Glastonbury, England. (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)
Commentary
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View of the city of Monastir and of the mosque, Monastir Governorate, Tunisia. (DeAgostini/Getty Images)
Experts
Joshua Meservey
Senior Fellow
