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An aerial view of a container ship arriving at the Port of Oakland on October 10, 2025, in Oakland, California. (Getty Images)
Politics and Government
Politics and Government
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Republican presidential candidate Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) speaks to guests during a rally on January 6, 2016 in Marshalltown, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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The podium before 2012 Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at his final campaign rally at Verizon Wireless Arena on November 5, 2012 in Manchester, New Hampshire. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
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Stoned teenage boy smoking spliff and triumphantly holding a bag of weed, Lambeth Walk South London c.2000. (PYMCA/UIG via Getty Images)
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Democratic Presidential Nominee Senator Bernie Sanders (D-VT) speaks at a campaign event at Drake University on June 12, 2015 in Des Moines, Iowa. (Scott Olson/Getty Images)
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Andrew Jackson (1767-1845), 7th president of the USA, as President-elect, delivering a speech from the driver's seat of his coach on his triumphal journey to Washington, 1828. Engraving from 'Harper's Weekly', 1881 (Universal History Archive/Getty Images)
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Candidates (R-L) Ohio Gov. John Kasich, Jeb Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), Ben Carson, N.J. Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) before the January 28, 2016 debate in Des Moines, Iowa. (Alex Wong/Getty Images)
Experts
Bernard Haykel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident), Center for Peace and Security in the Middle East
Mary Kissel
Senior Fellow (Nonresident)
