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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth speaks during a news conference at the Pentagon on June 22, 2025. (Andrew Harnik via Getty Images)
Politics and Government
Politics and Government
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(L) President George W. Bush views Hurricane Katrina’s devastation, August 31, 2005. (Paul Morse/White House/Getty Images) (R) President Lyndon B. Johnson views riot damage aboard a helicopter over Washington, DC, on April 7, 1968. (Frank Wolfe)
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (L) meets with Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) outside Moscow in Novo-Ogarevo on March 19, 2010. (ALEXEY NIKOLSKY/AFP/Getty Images)
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US Secretary of State John Kerry (R) with Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif April 19, 2016 at the United Nations in New York. (DON EMMERT/AFP/Getty Images)
Commentary
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General view of an apartment block in Pechatniki suburb, southeast of Moscow, after an explosion destroyed four stories out of 18 of the building, September 9, 1999. (STR/AFP/Getty Images)
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The Baker test during Operation Crossroads, a series of two nuclear weapons tests conducted by the United States at Bikini Atoll, July 25, 1946. (Galerie Bilderwelt/Getty Images)
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
