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An oil tanker is being unloaded with imported crude oil at the Qingdao Port Oil Terminal in Shandong Province, China on April 7, 2026. (Getty Images)
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US President Donald Trump speaks to reporters as he arrives at Palm Beach International Airport on October 31, 2025. (Getty Images)
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On June 4, 2025, Austin PBS and the LBJ Presidential Library held a discussion of filmmakers Ken Burns and Sarah Botstein’s documentary series The American Revolution. (Wikimedia Commons)
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A Telescope pointed at the sea and distant mountains in Cerbere, France, on August 31, 2024. (Getty Images)
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A screen shows images of China's President Xi Jinping at the Museum of the First National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party in Shanghai on February 27, 2025. (Getty Images)
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Zohran Mamdani delivers remarks at his election night watch party on November 4, 2025, in New York City. (Getty Images)
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Joseph Stalin in 1937. (Wikimedia Commons)
Experts
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
Rachel Mackey
Fellow and Executive Director, Hudson Institute Political Studies
