This past week, Iowa became the third state to let all families spend state funds on their children’s education. Robert Pondiscio says it’s just the latest victory for an ascendant school choice movement. “It’s no longer unthinkable,” writes Pondiscio, “that the American paradigm of sending our children to local, district-run public schools might be challenged.”

In the newest report from AEI’s Conservative Education Reform Network, Paul Carrese proposes that state-funded civic institutes could change the academic landscape at American universities. According to Carrese, these institutions—like the program he directs at Arizona State University—are bastions for educational freedom and liberal learning.

Naomi Schaefer Riley challenges a popular notion among progressive activists that direct cash aid alone can solve problems faced by children in poverty. As these activists rally to dismantle child protective services, Schaefer Riley argues that child maltreatment has far more complex root causes that require different solutions.

James C. Capretta summarizes the health-related provisions passed in the December 2022 omnibus bill. “The wide range of health-related matters addressed in the December omnibus deal,” he writes, “will lessen the pressure for immediate action in the current Congress.”

Nicholas Eberstadt and his coauthors present a national strategy for countering North Korea. The coauthors state that North Korea’s growing nuclear threat, despite persistent US diplomacy over three decades, means “it is imperative to design and implement a new, comprehensive strategy that incorporates all available tools of statecraft.”