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The United States “can certainly do more damage to the Iranian economy,
but they have withstood more pressure than any other economy in history,
and that hasn’t produced the collapse of the regime or more reasonable positions,”
said Suzanne Maloney, an Iran specialist and director of the foreign policy program at the Brookings Institution.
Iran is such an authoritarian state that the kind of political drivers that might push compromise don’t exist, she said,
wit…

Trump Looks for a Silver Bullet to End the Iran War. There May Be None.
The president is trying to ratchet up the economic pressure on Tehran, but Iran’s government is unlikely to make a deal without a big, face-saving compromise.

Trump Looks for a Silver Bullet to End the Iran War. There May Be None. (Steven Erlanger/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/05/world/middleeast/trump-blockade-iran-war.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260505/p120#a260505p120

Why are we having fewer children?
(Interview with Berkay Ozcan, Professor at LSE)
- Couple formation happens at later age
- Women are choosing "careers" and not just "jobs"
- More people choose not to have kids at all
What else is going on? Short anser: we don't know yet
Even in countries providing a lot of support to parents, fertility rate has still declined
Immigration is no silver bullet. It's part of the solution, not th…

Berkay Ozcan: “Immigration is not a silver bullet for falling birth rates”
Berkay Ozcan discusses falling birth rates, whether immigration might provide the answer and what a smaller global population would mean for the environment.

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