Thanks to the pandemic, every teen is officially two years younger, because they missed at least a couple of Halloweens, okay?

Presently, migrant children are rendered invisible and relegated to the status of a national problem rather than an opportunity — but so were many “Pedro Pans,” at least initially. However, that cohort grew into a catalogue of success stories, aided by federal and state assistance and everyday American altruism.

While President Biden is trying to win a court victory for his student debt forgiveness proposal, he should be focusing instead on the latest dreadful report by the National Assessment for Educational Progress.

Although it’s possible that the Russia war machine, if it can be called that, simply collapses in Ukraine, it is more likely that war will end in some messy compromise involving a negotiated settlement. Acknowledging this — and that the continuation of the conflict is a humanitarian catastrophe with enormous costs for the West and the world — shouldn’t be a quasi-thought crime.

The word is a new coinage, a portmanteau of “Caucasian” and “audacity” denoting a brand of white arrogance and entitlement that has become tiresomely familiar in recent years. It often plays out in episodes — sometimes fatal — wherein some white person takes it upon themselves to police people of color who are just trying to live their lives.

Salem is famous for the 1692 witch trials, which has made “Halloween in Salem” a bucket list item. That’s good for the Halloween-themed businesses, which have taken over downtown. Not so good for locals wanting to pick up groceries or do early voting at the City Hall Annex. And certainly not good for an understanding of the tragedy behind the merrymaking.

Revving China’s economy isn’t Xi’s game. War is Xi’s aim, a war to seize Taiwan that leads to a big one with the U.S. As Xi calculates, given the Biden administration’s haplessness, the war ends in a stalemate. With American weakness exposed, America’s Asian allies kowtow to Beijing and Xi’s China reigns preeminent in east Asia.

Intolerance grows bolder and more unashamed than it’s been in generations, a corrosive eating through bonds of national affiliation — and the right responds with loud silence. Meantime, luminaries of the left take their own to task for cluttering the language with the jargon of inclusivity.

The activists are quite pleased with the attention they are getting. It’s not true, though, that all publicity is good publicity. What they are really putting on display is their own recklessness and fanaticism.