| It’s tempting to see other countries eliminating their tariffs on American goods in exchange for merely less-punitive tariffs from America as a triumph of Trumpian trade toughness. It is not. The rash of new levies coming into force will hurt America most. We lay out why in our leader.
Elsewhere, we examine America’s declining fertility rate. In 1960 the average number of children a woman could be expected to have was 3.6. Today it is just under 1.6—the lowest rate on record. Women in every state are having fewer children, but it is in states that have historically been the most fertile where the fall has been precipitous.
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