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The article focuses on the growing popularity of tiny-house movement in the U.S. Brief description of the concept of tiny houses which attract environmentalists and adventurers, and served as solutions to serious social problems, is provided. Overview of how tiny houses were appealing for both environmental and economic reasons, and as creative solutions to housing problems, is emphasized.

The article discusses five things that K-12 education can learn from higher education in the U.S. as of October 2014. These things are allowing students to learn at their own pace, requiring teachers to obtain degrees in the subjects that they teach, and paying teachers as individuals instead of as a collective. Higher education has reportedly avoided failures in the public school system by using market processes.

The article presents the author's views on the role of public schools in the American society as of September 2014. She reflects on the predicament of young families who cannot afford to live in areas where high quality schools are located. She argues that school boards and cities have a role in promoting sprawling suburbs and exurbs which makes families suffer. She also offers several methods to address sprawl which includes encouraging cities to lower regulations and land use laws.

The article presents a study on the government student aid hypothesis of former U.S. Education Secretary Bill Bennett conducted by senior researcher Andrew Gillen in 2014. According to Gillen, aid progams that are limited to low-income students are less likely to permit colleges to increase their tuition. Gillen notes that price discrimination permits private colleges to increase tuition in response to assistance at an individual level.

The article discusses the role of the U.S. government in increasing the rate of obesity. It blames the U.S. Congress, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for its food subsidies and misguided food suggestions which made it more difficult for American to make healthy and dietary decisions. It indicates that obesity becomes a major health problems in the U.S. in which 65% of adults are overweight.