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![<p>People sit on a pickup truck as they prepare to travel about 250 kilometers south to Adré, on the Chad-Sudan border, at a transport station in Tine, eastern Chad, on November 25, 2025. The movement comes amid the ongoing conflict between the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and the Sudanese army.</p>]()
![<p>President Dwight D. Eisenhower, then-Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stand together during a luncheon at the White House, March 31, 1955.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW63544548 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW63544548 BCX0">Secretary of State John Foster Dulles.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![TL_2014_Maidan]()
By CFR Editors![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">Photograph of </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">President Woodrow Wilson address</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">ing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0"> a joint session of Congress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0"> by </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">Harris & Ewing</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW258910548 BCX0">.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">President Donald Trump speaks to a joint session of Congress</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">, </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW19585078 BCX0">March 4, 2025.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW239570326 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW239570326 BCX0">The White House on October 31, 2004.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![Bangladesh Nationalist Party chairman Tarique Rahman gestures to crowd during an election campaign rally.]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![<p><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">An 1898 illustration </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">of the U.S.S. </span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">Maine</span></span><span class="TextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0" lang="EN-US" xml:lang="EN-US" data-contrast="auto"><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0"> </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">exploding </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">Havana </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW170245311 BCX0">harbor.</span></span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>View of Mount Rushmore Memorial Park in 2016. From left to right: Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>A transport truck drives across the U.S.-Canada border at Fort Erie Ontario, Canada, April 2, 2025.</p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![Women hold candles during a vigil to honor those killed on January 3 during the U.S. operation to capture Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, at Bolivar Square in Caracas, Venezuela, January 22, 2026.]()
By Caroline Hubbard![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231188048 BCX0">First page of Enri</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231188048 BCX0">q</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231188048 BCX0">ue Dupuy de </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW231188048 BCX0">Lôme’s</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231188048 BCX0"> letter to Don José </span><span class="NormalTextRun SpellingErrorV2Themed SCXW231188048 BCX0">Canelejas</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW231188048 BCX0">, the Foreign Minister of Spain, February 1898.</span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>Thailand’s caretaker Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul, Bhumjaithai Party leader and prime ministerial candidate, gestures following a press conference at the party headquarters on the day of the general election in Bangkok, Thailand, on February 8, 2026.</p>]()
By Joshua Kurlantzick![Japan's LDP to make decision on coalition with Japan Innovation Party]()
By Sheila A. Smith and Chris Baylor![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW190164940 BCX0">“</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW190164940 BCX0">Washington and Lafayette at the Battle of Brandywine</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW190164940 BCX0">” by John Vanderlyn in </span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW190164940 BCX0">the early 19th century</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW190164940 BCX0">. </span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![Japan's Centrist Reform Alliance]()
By Sheila A. Smith and Chris Baylor![<p>The sun sets over the U.S. Capitol, January 30, 2026.<em> REUTERS/Kylie Cooper</em></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay![<p>A man sells newspapers in a street, following an attack on the international airport in Niamey, Niger, on January 30, 2026.</p>]()
By Ebenezer Obadare![<p><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW222540313 BCX0">“Map of the United States Including Western Territories,” by Ephraim Gilman, as the official House of Representatives Map of the United States in 1848</span><span class="NormalTextRun SCXW222540313 BCX0">. </span></p>]()
By James M. Lindsay- Backgrounder
What Does the U.S. National Guard Do?
![<p>A member of the National Guard patrols the southern U.S. border in Eagle Pass, Texas.</p>]()
![Sanseito party's campaign rally in Tokyo]()
By Sheila A. Smith and Chris Baylor
