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The staff writer Gideon Lewis-Kraus joins Tyler Foggatt to discuss why people around the world are having fewer and fewer children and how the issue of birth rates has become a rallying cry for the American right. Plus, the lack of political will on the left to contend with the issue; and the societal effects on South Korea, which has the lowest birth rates in the world.

This week’s reading:

“The End of Children,” by Gideon Lewis-Kraus
The Chaos of Trump’s Guantánamo Plan,” by Jonathan Blitzer
“The New Trump-Family Megaphone

Is America Destined for a Future Without Children?

The Political Scene | The New Yorker