Describing why and how the Communist Chinese regime subverts democracies around the world, Michael Beckley and Hal Brands argue that ideology, not practicality, drives these efforts. Beckley and Brands say democratic leaders need to recognize that China’s government has deeply held ideological motives to weaken democracies and promote its own authoritarian form of governance.

Writing in the New York Times, Scott Winship warns that the social costs of expanding the child tax credit would outweigh its material benefits. “Among those families with the weakest attachment to stable work and family life,” writes Winship, “it would be likely to consign them to more entrenched multigenerational poverty by further disconnecting them from those institutions.”

On December 16, Michael R. Strain hosted an event with Mary C. Daly, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, to discuss the economy, inflation, and the Federal Reserve System’s role therein.

According to Naomi Schaefer Riley, child maltreatment in New York City has gotten worse because the city’s Administration for Children’s Services has put the goals of anti-racist ideology first. Schaefer Riley explains how a similar, dangerous attitude is taking hold in other cities and at the federal level.

Following the US-Africa Leaders Forum in Washington last week, Michael Rubin identifies what’s missing in America’s Africa strategy. “None of America’s investment will matter,” writes Rubin, “if the United States has no model to which it can point on the continent to demonstrate the wisdom and benefits of African states casting their lot with America.”