Due to higher inflation, a middle-income married U.S. family with two children will now spend $26,011 more to raise a child to the age of 17. In the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade reversal and the failure of the Build Back Better Act, Isabel Sawhill, Morgan Welch, and Chris Miller highlight the lack of government support for parenthood.

This week marks the one-year anniversary of America’s tumultuous military withdrawal from Afghanistan. On a new episode of The Current, Madiha Afzal discusses the restrictions on Afghan women’s public life and the need for more creative solutions to the country’s humanitarian crisis.