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From CNN:

Far more ominously, it is possible that the recent shift of some Latinos is not the twilight of America's racialization, but in fact the path by which it might endure.

—Justin Gest

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From the Conversation:

We say it is “possible” that chimeric coronaviruses have been made because we simply do not know for sure. US labs are not obliged to publicly report, explain, or justify such experiments. And this highlights a larger issue.

—Greg Koblentz and Filippa Lentzos

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From the Kansas City Star:

Compounding the problem, the field of education acquired a stigma for African Americans. There is now a major shortage of Black teachers. Opening up the remarkable achievements of past Black educators offers other important insights for discussions of education policy today.

—Frank T. Manheim

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From the Wall Street Journal:

The administration is under intense pressure from the Democratic Party’s far left wing to deliver “progress” through cuts to the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Instead, the Biden administration should consider expanding the stockpile and altering its approach to deterrence more broadly.

—Matthew R. Costlow (PhD student and senior analyst at the National Institute for Public Policy)

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From Homeland Security Today:

SIS-Mozambique is highly capable of carrying out attacks on strategic targets in Mozambique and typically targets infrastructure (including power supplies), state institutions, and government buildings.��

— Mahmut Cengiz and Emma Sameth

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From Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists:

If artificial intelligences controlled nuclear weapons, all of us could be dead.

—Zak Kallenborn

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From World Politics Review:

Should the benchmark be a comparison to the turbulent Trump years, or to earlier times when U.S. diplomacy was defining the regional agenda and, on occasion, making a meaningful contribution to achieving peace?��

—Ellen Laipson

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From the Washington Post:

The GOP’s trust in local officials to do the best thing for their own people appears to have taken a back seat to its current compulsion for imposing party doctrine statewide.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From the Hill:

A leader with either excessive strength or excessive weakness can be a danger to democracy. Right now, many Americans are troubled by��President Biden’s perceived weakness.

—Bill Schneider

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From La República:

The struggle of Achí, Q'eqchí, and Quechua women shows that it is possible for survivors of sexual violence, whether in times of war or peace, to break the silence and access justice.

—Jo-Marie Burt

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From Homeland Security Today:

To conclude, the 2020 Annex of Statistical Information shows that COVID-19 did not reduce the number of terrorist attacks; instead, such attacks increased 13 percent worldwide. Terrorist organizations continued to maintain their operational capacity and responded to the virus based on the pillars of their ideologies.��

—Mahmut Cengiz

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From Taiwan Insight:

We have failed to consider the new reality that Taiwan is now a free democracy and no longer claims sovereignty over China.

—Gerrit van der Wees

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From Elfaro:

Still, it is a justice to be celebrated. Rarely have women survivors of wartime rape succeeded in charging and convicting their tormentors.

—Jo-Marie Burt, et al.

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From American City & County:

Cities and counties are about to partake in the nation’s first and largest cybersecurity funding program to help local governments…As we all wait for the final rules, it has become rather clear that there are many public managers and IT leaders still trying to strategize and figure out just where to begin?

—Alan R. Shark

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From the Hill:

In the New Political Order, maybe President Biden could toughen up and use the “how dare they?” trope.

—Bill Schneider

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From the Sun-Gazette:

Commentary: Va. Needs to Invest in Facilities for Business Expansion

In recent years, Virginia has lost out on an estimated $55 billion in capital-investment projects, more than $235 million in potential state revenue and nearly 40,000 direct jobs because we lacked shovel-ready sites or existing buildings.

—John Milliken and Stuart Malawer

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From Ripon Forum:

If anything, the unfolding crisis in Ukraine should serve as wake-up call that we are running out of time to deter aggression against an even more vulnerable partner: Taiwan. Washington should act with urgency.

—Michael A. Hunzeker