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The Trump administration's attacks on oversight of executive power
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Measles is spreading. Are you safe?
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Since Donald Trump took office in January, a lot has happened. The White House Budget Office ordered a pause on all federal grants and loans.
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Measles is spreading. Are you safe?
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What will it take to get measles under control?
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What will it take to get measles under control?
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Trump is betting the economy on his tariff theory
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Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so
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Farming is uncertain — a trade war makes it more so
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Drowning in tariffs, American businesses try to stay afloat
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
It's very rare for people to go inside.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Simone Collins in her thick-rimmed round glasses is one of the more visible faces of pronatalism. On purpose.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
She's here at NatalCon in her signature look, which she describes as techno-puritan.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Think Thanksgiving pilgrim in a school play with a baby strapped to her back.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
That's one-year-old Industry Americus. Indy's three older siblings are home with neighbors in Pennsylvania. Simone and her husband Malcolm are expecting a fifth child this year, and she's said that she's willing to die in childbirth to have as many kids as possible.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
The Collinses have made themselves available for profiles in pretty much every major news outlet you can think of.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Simone and her husband are big fans of Elon Musk. He's famous, he's got 13 kids, and he also tends to talk about falling birth rates in catastrophic terms.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
That's him on Fox News recently. Musk and the Collinses are seen as members of the tech camp of pronatalist advocacy. Venture capitalism, technology like IVF and AI are key parts of their recipe for maximizing human potential via more babies. The Collinses are also very interested in genetic engineering.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Another pronatalist camp includes the more religiously motivated and believers in strict gender norms. It's referred to as the trads, as in traditional.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
That's Charles Haywood at the First Natal Con a couple years ago. This year, he's behind the scenes as a sponsor. He made his money as a shampoo magnate. Haywood blames birth rate declines on feminism and the overturning of what he sees as natural hierarchies of gender and race.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
So it may seem like a challenge to square a Charles Haywood with a Simone Collins — she's an entrepreneurial woman with a master's degree from Cambridge — but they share a commitment to spaces like Natalcon because they both believe Modern culture has stopped prioritizing nuclear families and having kids, which is not really how most demographers describe what's happening.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Catherine Benjamin Guzzo is a University of North Carolina sociologist who runs the Carolina Population Center.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
The United States has low fertility right now. Up until the Great Recession, we were sort of humming along right around two kids per person.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Then birth rates began to fall, partly because the U.S. succeeded in reducing teen and unintended births. America was actually a couple decades late to the declining fertility trend. It's something that's been happening at different rates all over the world.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
And this is true in Italy and it's true in Japan and it's true in many countries in sub-Saharan Africa. India has a below replacement fertility rate in some parts.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
The theories about why this is happening are pretty complicated. But there's also another trend emerging. We're used to thinking of richer, more educated people having fewer children than the poor and working class. Recent research shows that tendency has actually started to reverse in many countries, including the U.S. Guzzo says surveys show most people want kids.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
But nowadays, in this very competitive world, they have a vision of what being a good parent means. A stable home, income, a partner, hope about the future.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
People are not being irrational and selfish when they're deciding not to have children. People are making a series of decisions to not have a child now, maybe in the future. And then that keeps happening because we aren't giving people the societal supports to meet their visions of having a good parent.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
For her, that should include things like more government funding for health care, affordable housing, schools, child care, addressing climate change. But many pro-natalists, including NatalCon's organizer Kevin Dolan, see their biggest allies as the folks in the White House right now. Here's Dolan speaking at the conference over lunch.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Dolan left his data science job in 2021 after his anonymous Twitter account was exposed. Among other things, he'd used it to promote the racist notion that white men are superior to other races and women. After getting doxed, Dolan continued sharing his thoughts about how society should be ordered on his podcast.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
Matthew McManus is a lecturer at the University of Michigan and an expert on the modern hard right writers Dolan takes inspiration from.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
For these thinkers, restoring this masculine culture means feminism and multicultural democracy need to be rooted out.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
It's not explicit on the natal con stage, but part of Dolan's vision for the conference is to help build this world where men like him can't be doxed because they'll be in power. Dolan says his conference is nonpartisan, and he invites speakers who say stuff like this.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
That's a speech from the first natal con. It's a writer who goes by the pseudonym Peachy Keenan. Her work is published by a company that sells books arguing Black people are inherently more criminal and less intelligent than white people. That publisher, Passage Press, sponsored NatalCon this year, and its founder was a featured speaker.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
These are some of the elements united under the banner of pronatalism. They don't all agree on how to boost birth rates, but two years after the first NatalCon, this is a movement that's much closer to power than it used to be.
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They want America to have more babies. Is this their moment?
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Trump says the economy is in 'transition.' What comes after?
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Trump says the economy is in 'transition.' What comes after?
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