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The birth rate is dropping in every country on Earth, @DKThomp writes. He spoke with the economist Jesús Fernández-Villaverde about why the birth rate is dropping, why it matters, and just how steep the decline is likely to get:

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/global-birthrate-decline/687297/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYXPtzNk7yPv4DsIMga2tBqc&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

Barry Lynn has convinced many Democrats that corporate consolidation is the root of all evil—and that all who disagree must be expunged, @JonathanChait argues. He spoke with Lynn about whether Democrats could regret the neo-Brandesian movement’s success:

Yuval Noah Harari on Donald Trump’s Core Delusion

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/opinion/ezra-klein-podcast-yuval-noah-harari.html?unlocked_article_code=1.llA.Vjyn.Y-WxrkpYEM2W&smid=url-share

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Trump’s endgame in Iran has become clear—as has his desire to slip away without Americans noticing the magnitude of this defeat, Robert Kagan argues.

“The iron law that said raising wages kills jobs is dead. The evidence killed it. What remains is to bury the paradigm that kept it alive—and to rebuild the country it broke,” @NickHanauer and @EricBeinhocker write:

 https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/minimum-wage-experiment-worked/687255/?gift=yGKGqaI9BMfIDuch_TrGYTe_7qjRspMNyaD7nR_4Kts&utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

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The military historian Phillips O’Brien joins David Frum to discuss the fallout from the war in Iran, Russia’s stalemate with Ukraine, and Trump’s recent meeting with President Xi Jinping in China.

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