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The case for one billion Americans, & more (Matt Yglesias)

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Is the Homestead Act a Good Idea?

The US has not traditionally had the kind of pro-natalist for national security politics that you saw in 19th century France or sometimes in other countries. The United States used to have a lot of children, more children than other Western countries. And I think it's worth asking sort of why that is. It connects to a lot of like very normal kind of progressive Democrat stuff.

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