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,” by Jon Allsop
• “Month One of Donald Trump’s “Golden Age,” by Antonia Hitchens
• “Team Canada’s Revenge, Served Ice-Cold,” by Louisa Thomas 

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