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US Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and Japan’s Minister of Defense Shinjiro Koizumi inspect a guard of honor on October 29, 2025 in Tokyo, Japan. (Getty Images)
Politics and Government
Politics and Government
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US Secretary of Transportation Elaine Chao speaks during a news conference at the US Environmental Protection Agency headquarters in Washington, DC, on September 19, 2019. (ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP via Getty Images)
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Katherine Tai delivers remarks after being introduced as U.S. President-elect Joe Biden’s nominee to be the next U.S. Trade Representative at the Queen Theater on December 11, 2020 in Wilmington, Delaware (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
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Voters are seen at a polling place at Varnell gymnasium on January 5, 2021 in Dalton, Georgia, USA
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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks about his racial equity agenda in the State Dining Room of the White House on January 26, 2021 in Washington, DC
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John Kerry, America’s secretary of state at the time, arrives at Palestinian Authority headquarters in the West Bank city of Ramallah on November 24, 2015.
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Opposition leader Alexei Navalny attends a hearing at the Babushkinsky District Court in Moscow, Feb. 5.
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A rally in Sana’a, Yemen, against the U.S. designation of the Houthis as a foreign terrorist organization, Jan. 25.
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
