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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)
Education
Education
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A Taliban security personnel gestures as women stand in a queue outside the passport office in Herat on August 26, 2023. (Mohsen Karimi/AFP via Getty Images)
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Xi Jinping and Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud co-sign the comprehensive strategic partnership agreement between the People's Republic of China and the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on December 8, 2022. (Xinhua via Getty Images)
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The campus of the University of Maryland in College Park, Maryland, on December 7, 2017. (Astrid Riecken via Getty Images)
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A student sits in class at Yung Wing School PS 124 on September 27, 2021, in New York City. (Michael Loccisano via Getty Images)
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Space Odyssey 2001
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Statue of Abraham Lincoln inside Lincoln Memorial Washington, DC. (Getty Images)
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A cabin in Wyoming. (Justin W. Kern via Getty Images)
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The Underground Railroad by Charles T. Webber. (Cincinnati Art Museum via Wikimedia Commons)
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Experts
Rachel Mackey
Fellow and Executive Director, Hudson Institute Political Studies
