The Impending COVID-19 Baby Bust, What Reducing US Troops in Germany Means, and More

June 16, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the United States into an economic recession, an event that will likely lead to people having fewer children. In a new analysis, Melissa Kearney and Phillip Levine find that there could be between 300,000 to 500,000 fewer births next year.

President Trump recently approved a plan to reduce the number of U.S. troops stationed in Germany. Michael O’Hanlon explains important facts about the force in Germany and outlines potential consequences for reducing the force for the U.S. military and the alliance more generally.

When police kill Black men, women are often the ones who have to face the collateral consequences by taking on greater responsibility for caregiving and shouldering a greater burden of economic contributions—all on top of psychological and physiological damage they incur from losing loved ones. Alyasah Ali Sewell and Rashawn Ray write about the health risks of living with lethal police violence.

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