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WASHINGTON, D.C.- APRIL 4: Artist David Hammon's African American Flag is exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, April 4, 2025, in Washington, D.C. President Trump has said he will be reviewing Smithsonian exhibits for bias against American values. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Artist David Hammon's African American Flag is exhibited at the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, April 4, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

Commentary

Trump’s Smithsonian Counter-Revolution

John Fonte

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for American Common Culture

John Fonte

Apr 16, 2025

Commentary

7 Min Read

The Voice of America (VOA) sign is displayed on its building on March 17, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Alex Wong via Getty Images)

Commentary

US-Funded Media Like Voice of America Must Be Saved and Strengthened

Nury Turkel

Senior Fellow

Nury Turkel

Apr 16, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

Jimmy Lai Chee-ying arrives at the West Kowloon Magistrates' Courts of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region before a hearing in his case on May 18, 2020, in Hong Kong, China. (Li Zhihua/China News Service via Getty Images)

Commentary

Jimmy Lai, the Face of China’s Repression, to Receive the Bradley Prize

Nina Shea

Senior Fellow and Director, Center for Religious Freedom

Nina Shea

Apr 10, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

The orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavistch Foundation is holding a solidarity collection for people in need before Passover on April 21, 2024, Buenos Aires, Argentina (Guido Piotrkowski/picture alliance via Getty)

The orthodox Jewish Chabad Lubavistch Foundation holds a solidarity collection for people in need before Passover on April 21, 2024, in Buenos Aires, Argentina (Guido Piotrkowski via Getty)

Commentary

Buenos Aires, the Unexpected Capital of the Jewish Diaspora

Jon Lerner

Senior Fellow

Jon Lerner

Mar 20, 2025

Commentary

5 Min Read

The Statue of Liberty on May 20, 2009. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP via Getty)

Commentary

Promoting Freedom Abroad Is Essential to Making America Great Again at Home

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Mar 17, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

Somewhere in North Vietnam- US Navy Lieutenant Commander Richard Allen Stratton waters vegetables in a North Vietnamese prisoner-of-war camp on Christmas Day, 1968. (Bettmann via Getty Images)

Commentary

Prisoner at War—The Death of an American Hero

William Luti

Adjunct Fellow

William Luti

Mar 14, 2025

Commentary

4 Min Read

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In the Media

A Conversation with Ahmad Massoud, Leader of the National Resistance Front (NRF) of Afghanistan

Luke Coffey

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Luke Coffey

Feb 24, 2025

In the Media

A view of the Presidential Palace and the Prince Jozef Poniatowski Monument in Warsaw, Poland, on October 23, 2023. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Commentary

When Democrats Govern Undemocratically: The Case of Poland

Matthew Boyse

Senior Fellow, Center on Europe and Eurasia

Matthew Boyse

Feb 18, 2025

Commentary

7 Min Read

French Resistance fighters sabotaging a railway in Saône-et-Loire in September 1944. (Roger Viollet via Getty Images)

Podcast

I Am André: German Jew, French Resistance Fighter, British Spy

Aaron MacLean

Senior Fellow

Aaron MacLean

Jan 24, 2025

Podcast

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Podcast

China Insider Interview | Damon Wilson of the National Endowment for Democracy

Miles Yu

Senior Fellow and Director, China Center

Miles Yu

Jan 23, 2025

Podcast

Melania Trump and Donald Trump arrive at St. John's Church as part of Inauguration ceremonies on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Scott Olson via Getty Images)

Commentary

American Exceptionalism Is Back