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From Ms. Magazine:

Those who enact state violence also often employ rape rhetoric. Two weeks before giving the order to invade Ukraine, Putin was reported to have made reference to a joke about marital rape, saying,��“It’s your duty, my beauty”��when he spoke of compelling President Zelinsky to comply with the Minsk agreements.

—Bonnie Stabile

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From Foreign Policy:

If present trends continue, it will take another generation before the majority-minority milestone is reached in the United States, and a couple more for Canada and Australia. Before that takes place, we can learn from the successes and struggles of the societies that have experienced these milestones.

—Justin Gest

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From Foreign Policy:

Each option would be far less escalatory than a no-fly zone and would provide Ukraine’s military forces with quick and valuable assistance. They are based on compelling historical precedents and would allow NATO to manage risks by exploiting the very��gray zone��tactics pundits have long treated as the exclusive domain of its adversaries.

—Michael Huneker, et al.

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From the Washington Post:

The historian Benedict Anderson��famously wrote��that “nationalism is not the awakening of nations to self-consciousness; it invents nations where they do not exist.” In the face of America’s demographic change and division, liberals must invent the nation anew.

—Justin Gest

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From Syndication Bureau:

It is still unclear if domestic politics in Washington or, to a lesser degree, in Tehran, will present further obstacles to the restoration of the agreement.

—Ellen Laipson

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From Cyber Security Intelligence:

In the final analysis, the best that social media can do right now is continue to provide justification and support to arming Ukraine to better fight in the other dimensions. ��But, make no mistake, as vital as that is, it will not stop a determined and ruthless enemy from its goal. ��

—Ronald Marks

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From the Washington Post:

Virginia has outgrown a lawmaking methodology created for yesteryear’s drowsy Southern farming state with a smaller, more homogenous populace.��

—Mark J. Rozell

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From the Hill:

Ordinarily, America and the West deplore military takeovers. But in this case, they are likely to welcome it, especially if the new leader called a halt to the Russian invasion, began to pull troops out, turned Putin over to the International Criminal Court for trial as a war criminal, and made good-faith efforts to make peace with Ukraine through internationally sponsored peace negotiations.

—Mark N. Katz

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From Inkstick:

Russia’s invasion will likely make any future efforts to track these weapons a hornet’s nest, which is only worsened by the��obliterated markings��on and��unreported theft��of weapons. Regardless, a holistic assessment is clearly needed and there are two key areas that must change.

—Jordan Cohen

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From the Washington Post:

Though it’s fair to point out where Biden has fallen short on Ukraine, Republicans best be prepared to state clearly where they stand and how they would do things differently.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From Ms. Magazine:��

The sexist treatment of Jackson serves as both a display of dominance on the part of aggressive questioners and a possible attempt on their part to goad her into responding emotionally or angrily—which would play into sexist stereotypes of women as hormonal or hysterical, undercutting perceptions of her ability to exercise judicial forbearance.��

—Bonnie Stabile

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From the Hill:

Moreover, the ability to get inside a dictator’s head is damned hard.�� These guys don’t have an enormous group of “friends” to tap. They play their cards close and might even not know themselves what they will do. Please do not try to psycho-analyze them from a distance. Pop psychology simply does not work.

—Ronald Marks

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From the Hill:

That’s the key political question raised by the Ukraine crisis. The answer depends, more than anything else, on U.S. domestic politics.

—Bill Schneider

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From the Hill:

America’s Middle Eastern allies may also calculate that their actions accommodating Russia will not hurt their ties to America—either out of the conviction that America needs them more than they need America, or because of their belief that there is strong American domestic support for them despite any cooperation with Russia.

—Mark N. Katz

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From Homeland Security Today:

Domestic politics also prompt authoritarian leaders to use terrorism for self-serving purposes. These leaders intentionally label their opposition as terrorists and use state-run media outlets to shape the minds of the people they govern.��

—Mahmut Cengiz

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From the Hill:

The American political tradition is deeply anti-authoritarian (“Don’t tread on me”), which explains why Putin gets so little support from the American public. But the radical right, which came to power with Donald Trump in 2017, includes a fringe element that sometimes expresses authoritarian sentiments.

—Bill Schneider

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From the Hill:

Chattering class and rumor aside, don’t count on any popular uprisings or palace coups.

—Ronald Marks

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From the National Interest:

But having done so, Moscow would not be displeased if the JCPOA negotiations broke down as a result of irreconcilable Iranian-American differences. Indeed, renewed Iranian-American tensions would undoubtedly be welcome in Moscow if they distracted the West from its current focus on the war in Ukraine.

—Mark N. Katz

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From the Hill:

A new Cold War could have a big impact on American politics. It might help resolve the country’s bitter political polarization, just as it did in the 1950s and early 1960s. So far at least, Democrats and Republicans do not seem to be deeply divided over Russian aggression.

—Bill Schneider

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From Inside Higher Ed:

After gasping, I then let out a shriek. Was I reading correctly that their dissertation chairs were actually the first author on all but one of the co-authored chapters?

—James Finkelstein

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From the National Interest:

Putin, though, did not provide a full account of why Lenin created ethnic republics inside the new post-Soviet revolutionary state that arose from the collapse of the Tsarist Empire. In fact, Lenin did this to try to resolve a problem that still confronts Russia.��

—Mark N. Katz

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From War on the Rocks:

We come at this with unique perspectives. One of us commanded Taiwan’s military, and the other is a close analyst of the country’s security affairs and a veteran of the invasion of Iraq. Based on our experiences, we lay out the case for such an organization, and why it can enhance deterrence, below.��

—Michael Hunzeker and Adm. (Ret.) Lee Hsi-Min

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From La República:

For their part, the president's defenders deny the accusations of corruption and claim the need to defend the rule of law. The president himself has called for the democratic charter to be invoked in the face of what he considers a coup attempt, without clarifying the serious accusations against him and his closest collaborators.

—Jo-Marie Burt

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From La República:

In Peru, it is time for citizens to speak out and make their voices heard, as they did in 2000 against the illegal and fraudulent re-election of Alberto Fujimori and in November 2020 against the usurper government of Manuel Merino, to demand the change in the political and economic system that Peru needs.

—Jo-Marie Burt

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From the Sentinel:

As a former Naval officer, I understand how climate change can pose a significant national security threat, and the entire U.S. intelligence community has confirmed this. If left unchecked, climate change will cause a scarcity of resources that could lead to exacerbated geopolitical tensions and instability.

—Joel Hicks

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From the American Conservative:

Failing to oversee these transactions is both negligent and renders the U.S.��complicit in homicide. Central America’s Northern Triangle—Guatemala, Honduras, and El Salvador—contains��47 of the 50 cities with the most murders in the��world.

—Jordan Cohen

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From Homeland Security Today:

The debate about whether the Houthis should be designated as an FTO also is likely to continue. How the United States will respond is unclear, even though the Houthis clearly meet the Department of State’s��legal criteria��for designation as an FTO.��

—Mahmut Cengiz