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From the Washington Post:

If Musk’s overvalued and rapidly declining currency — his Tesla stock — is one glaring problem with the Twitter deal, another is that he’s using it to overpay for a company that has lost money for the past two years as user growth has slowed.

—Steven Pearlstein

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From the Washington Post:

Twenty-five weeks remain to see whether abortion persists as a red-hot election issue or whether the Ukraine war, the economy, runaway inflation or perhaps a new coronavirus surge elbows it aside.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From El Faro:

A short, bookish man, Miguel Ángel Gálvez does not seem like much of a threat to anyone. But as an independent judge, he has taken on some of Guatemala’s most powerful individuals.

—Jo-Marie Burt and Paulo Estrada

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From the Hill:

The siloviki are being embarrassed by what appears to be a “paper tiger” Russian military. They are enraged to the very marrow of their bones—and they will seek revenge.

—Ronald Marks

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From the Conversation:

The international military support for Ukraine is preventing Russia from holding land and establishing air superiority. If this continues, Russia will need to figure out a different way to wage war, one in which it can take and hold Ukrainian territory.

—Jordan Cohen

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From the Hill:

Democrats do not tolerate recessions.��

—Bill Schneider

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From the Hill:

President Biden, in so refusing to act to stonewall Congress, did well to uphold the value of transparency in our constitutional democracy. But he also acted as president to refuse a privilege assertion by his predecessor.��

—Mark J. Rozell and Mitchel A. Sollenberger

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From Homeland Security Today:

Therefore, it is reasonable to conclude that Latin American cocaine traffickers will continue to use Turkey as a passageway to other countries for the sale of illicit drugs and that Middle Eastern and European countries will continue to be targets for a seemingly endless supply of cocaine.

—Mahmut Cengiz

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From the Hill:

On the surface, there’s not much ideological difference between the Reagan Republican Party and the Trump Republican Party. Both are staunchly conservative. The difference is in the personal style and tactics of the men.��

—Bill Schneider

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From the Washington Post:

Only Virginia forbids sitting governors from seeking reelection. Virginians don’t think four years is too long for a governor to stay focused on governing.

—Mark J. Rozell

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From Instick Media:

The maintenance of the liberal international order will require the United States to reconcile two competing ideas: space as a “war-fighting domain” and space as a place for “peaceful and scientific” exploration, as mandated by the 1967 Outer Space Treaty.�� It’s time for governments, lawyers, and scholars to deliver the appropriate guidance.

—Joanna Rozpedowski

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From the Washington Post:

Unfortunately for Bernanke, however, his book arrives just as this new framework is being put to the test, with an inflationary spiral taking hold, an economic slowdown on the horizon, and tech and crypto bubbles starting to burst.��

—Steven Pearlstein

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From City & County:

This backdoor-type cyber-attack has been problematic for public entities—especially local governments whose defenses are not geared towards such intrusions. Afterall, the service provider is considered a trusted source.

—Alan Shark

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From the National Interest:

The underrecognized cause is polarization over environmental regulations. The��drastic impact of 1970s environmental laws��on the economy aroused antagonism in the business community. Conflict over environmental policy widened to political polarization between environmentalists and U.S. industry and their respective political supporters in the 1980s.��

—Frank T. Manheim

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From the Hill:

Democrats are hoping the abortion issue will be the exceptional circumstance that saves their majorities this year. They are counting on angry pro-choice voters to flood the polls in order to keep Republicans from passing a nationwide abortion ban.

—Bill Schneider

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From OpinoJuris:

Whether the constitutional tradition of the United States recognizes the supremacy of international treaty law over domestic laws is a matter of intellectual contestation and legal dispute.��

—Joanna Rozpedowski

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From the Diplomat:

The problem with Beijing’s position is twofold: first, it has no solid historical basis, and second, historically speaking it is relatively recent. Thus it is not as “principled” and “consistent” as it is portrayed to be.

—Gerrit van der Wees

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From the National Interest:

Washington must fundamentally rethink its approach to the Middle East as the United States enters into a new era of great power competition with Russia and China.��

—Jon Hoffman

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From Homeland Security Today:

The world is quite familiar with��Erdogan’s politics, which are based on seeking leverage to protect his own interests rather than the interests of the country as a whole and to maintain his position in the government.��

—Mahmut Cegniz

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From the Washington Post:

It’s an untenable dilemma that American politics has created for itself by subjecting jurists to rigid ideological litmus tests. It has corroded our collaborative lawmaking process and eroded American respect for its highest court’s impartiality, perhaps irreparably.

—Mark J. Rozell