This week on the assignment with me, Audie Cornish.

The push to have bigger families and more babies is part of a movement called pro-natalism.

They are freaking out about declining global fertility rates.

And that is real.

It's a phenomenon called birth-death.

What's behind this push to start a new baby boom?

Who are the voices pushing for a more

pro-family America? And what exactly does that mean? Listen to the assignment with me,

Audie Cornish, streaming now on your favorite podcast app. I'm Marco Wurman, co-hosts of the

world. We're dropping a special series into our feed today.

It's about the Kurdish community in Nashville, the largest in the U.S.

The show, The Country in Our Hearts, tells a story of how that came to be.

It's from WPLN, Nashville Public Radio.

Host and reporter Rose Gilbert takes you on a journey from Nashville all the way to northern Iraq and back again,

tracing the story of one Kurdish family and their generations-long fight to exist.

It's four episodes. This is episode two.

And this is the older village, right here.

This is where they would live.

Like you see the sign, welcome to Chalke.

I'm with Aran and his big heavy SUV, perfect for Rough Mountain roads.

We've arrived in the village of Cholke,

the place that Aran and Nash's family fled so many years ago.

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