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Washington Post
08-07-2025
- Politics
- Washington Post
Alligator Alcatraz and the loss of America's soul
Alligator Alcatraz and the loss of America's soul A new immigrant detention center in Florida has been dubbed 'Alligator Alcatraz' by Republicans, who are now selling merch around the pop-up prison. It's just one more stunt in a long line of immigration performance from President Trump and his administration. But is all this just a distraction from the difficulty of actually fulfilling his mass deportation campaign promises? And what happens to public support as Trump's policies become more extreme? Dana Milbank, Eduardo Porter and Monica Hesse discuss.
Washington Post
10-06-2025
- Health
- Washington Post
You can't save the birth rate, so at least save your brain
In today's edition: Ashes to ashes, bust to bust. Two essays today frame the breadth of human life, beginning with Eduardo Porter's on the big dip in fertility rates across the globe — the baby bust. A bunch of solutions have been proposed here in the United States, but Eduardo writes that no baby bonus or motherhood medal is going to offset the fact that the opportunity cost for having a child is now much higher for women than in decades past. Even in countries that have devoted lots of money to subsidized child care, such as France and the Scandinavian states, fertility is still ticking lower.
