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In the United States, rates started to take a sharper nosedive after the Great Recession, driven in part by college-educated women who delayed having children.

A sharper debate has opened over social and cultural issues: Should Democrats break with the identity politics — the stuff Republicans deride as “woke” — that animates much of their progressive wing?

"I definitely feel a lot sharper having played that as opposed to maybe having a training week."

As generational challenges have become more common, they’ve also become sharper in their explicit appeals to age as a key candidate quality.

And that contradiction becomes even sharper in a country currently experiencing a renewable energy boom.