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Laboratory technicians work on samples to be tested for the COVID-19 coronavirus at a testing facility in Wuhan, China on August 4, 2021. (Getty Images)
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Politics and Government
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An airborne unmanned combat formation passes through Tian'anmen Square during the V-Day military parade on September 3, 2025, in Beijing, China. (Getty Images)
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth speaks to senior military leaders at Marine Corps Base Quantico on September 30, 2025 in Quantico, Virginia. (Getty Images)
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Elon Musk is photographed at Space X in Brownsville, Texas, on May 27, 2025. (Marvin Joseph via Getty Images)
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President Abraham Lincoln stands with Gen. George B. McClellan and other officers in Antietam, Maryland, on October 3, 1862. (Library of Congress via Wikimedia Commons)
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An F/A-18E Super Hornet lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Nimitz in the South China Sea on June 5, 2025. (US Navy)
Experts
H.R. McMaster
Chair of the Advisory Board, Japan Chair
Walter Russell Mead
Ravenel B. Curry III Distinguished Fellow in Strategy and Statesmanship
