Liberals: Education Matters for Democrats

“Some public schooling advocates and some politicians downplay growing concerns that public schools cannot meet acceptable standards,” says Jessica Grose of The New York Times. is complaining. They “reduced parents’ fears that their children would fall behind by viewing the concept of learning loss as a “hoax” or by suggesting that parents should not have a say in school teaching. But it is very real and can have long-term consequences if, for example, a third grader is struggling to read because a remote first grader was a disaster . And polls suggest that “voters care more about education than abortion, immigration and climate change.” Indeed, emails from her privileged and mostly Democratic readers are about the politicization of the school board and “prioritizing things like social and emotional learning over the basics of literacy and math.” , and indicate great concern about ignoring children with “learning differences.”

Libertarians: Tax-Driven Immigration

“The tax burden is one of the drivers of migration,” says Chris Edwards of the Washington Examiner, especially among high-income earners. “Elon Musk appears to have saved $500 million when he moved from California with a top income tax rate of 13.3% to Texas with a zero tax rate.” For every new home added in the state, 2 families are lost, and for every new home added, New York loses 3.” “West Palm Beach has a booming financial industry fueled by transplanted New York-area entrepreneurs.” Battle for the bottom? “New York and Florida have about the same population, but the latter provides state and local services with 26 percent less of her civil servants than the former.”

Iran Watch: How Biden Can Help Protesters

Bloomberg’s Bobby Ghosh said, “The death of a young woman in police custody has sparked protests across Iran . . . foreigners are regularly accused of plotting to overthrow the regime. The challenge for President Biden, therefore, is to “help protesters without allowing the administration to portray them as American pawns”. exempts “sanctions on satellite systems” and clarifies that “Iranian officials involved in human rights abuses against protesters are subject to sanctions under the Global Magnitsky Act.” “Iranian protesters know they take significant risks in challenging the regime,” so “Biden wants to make sure their voices are heard beyond the noise created by Putin.” And we should reward their courage.”

Cultural Critic: Death in a Royal Chronicle

“When the Queen died two weeks ago, it was widely speculated that Hilary Mantell was the best writer to explain her death and its aftermath, but that is no longer the case,” said Spectator World. Alexander Rahman laments. Mantell’s “sudden death” at age 70 “robs English literature of one of its most distinctive and compelling voices.” Her historic Wolf Hall The book made it to the screen and the stage, but was “an uncompromising novel, sold in such numbers as eminent airport readings usually do, and “comprehended a difficult and intellectually penetrating book in general.” Read by shy people, something that mantle specialized in. Even after becoming famous, she never lost her “intellectual honesty.”

Warbeat: Putin’s main weakness in Ukraine

“Morale and cohesion are key” to military victory, but Vladimir Putin’s “army has yet to show much,” argues Dov Zakheim in The Hill. His partial mobilization is “unlikely to change that”. Putin’s threat to use ‘tactical nuclear weapons’ likely reflects his growing panic that his ‘normal operations’ will fail. It was his general, not him, who would give the order, and they would “far more than he realize that doing so could pose an existential threat to Russia itself.”

— Edited by The Post Editorial Board