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The craziest thing “about former President Donald Trump’s trial in New York is that we do not know precisely what crime Trump is charged with committing,” muses the Washington Examiner’s Byron York.

Filmmaker Michael Moore claimed that the organizers of anti-Israel protests across the country that he spoke to were "kind and generous."

“These anti-Israel protests across the country are . . . self-inflicted wounds for Democrats, because they are alienating far more people than they’re attracting,” warns Derek Hunter at The Hill.

“Public elementary and secondary school spending in New York hit a new record high of $29,873 per pupil in 2021-22,” grumbles the Empire Center’s E.J. McMahon.

In 2020, Joe Biden’s Hispanic margin over Trump was 23 points — down from “Clinton’s 39-point margin” in 2016 — but today his “margin over Trump among Latinos is a slim 9 points,” notes Ruy Teixeira.

The new state budget “imposes a multibillion-dollar tax on health insurance without specifying who must pay how much,” fumes the Empire Center’s Bill Hammond.

“If I were advising a friend’s son or daughter facing Decision Day, I’d tell them to pass on the Ivy League and go to a high-quality state school instead,” explains Nate Silver at his Silver Bulletin, with a few exceptions.

Now that US aid is settled, explains Kurt Volker at the Center for European Policy Analysis, “We must no longer give Ukraine just enough to survive, but not enough to win.”

The Post Editorial Board gives its thoughts on issues including bringing back school discipline, the conservative 'warmonger' idiocy, GOP isolationism, pro-Hamas protests, and Bragg v. Trump.

In the aftermath of Iran’s missile attack, “the West’s admonishments of Israel certainly cannot be put down to simple wavering on Joe Biden’s part,” rages Daniel Ben-Ami at Spiked. T