Is California Over?
Why the Golden State is losing people, business, and a congressional seat
Population
The California Exodus Is Real
California has morphed from a land of limitless opportunity to a highly regulated land of limits and control. No wonder so many people are leaving.
Illinois' Population Drain Continues for 7th Consecutive Year
The tax- and corruption-heavy state has lost a quarter-million people in the past decade.
The U.S. Baby Bust Continues
The total fertility rate falls to its lowest level ever.
U.S. Population Growth Rate Lowest in a Century, Says New Report
Negative population growth back in 1919 was largely the result of the Spanish flu pandemic
What Happens to the U.S. Population If Immigration Rises Substantially or Halts Entirely?
The Census Bureau sketches out scenarios in which immigration remains about the same, increases by 50 percent, falls by 50 percent, or halts entirely.
Ecomodernism Is the Solution to Man-Made Climate Change
The Breakthrough Institute's Ted Nordhaus urges Americans to reject both doomism and denialism.
Californians Are Fleeing the State's Progressive Policies
California's progressive political imperatives are having such glaring real-world repercussions that it's hard to keep ignoring them.
It's Not a Mystery Why America's Biggest Cities Are Losing Population
Chicago, Los Angeles, and New York City all have some easily identifiable management problems.
'One Child Nation' Exposes the Tragic Consequences of Chinese Population Control
Documentary filmmaker Nanfu Wang on the horrors of China’s one-child policy
The U.N. Says World Population May Top Out at 10.9 Billion Before 2100. Other Demographers Say It'll Be Much Lower.
Thanks to global expansion of reproductive freedom, actual population growth is likely to be less and peak around the middle this century
Of Course the Country Isn't Full — and Trump Knows It
America desperately needs more immigrants to support its economy.
Want to End Urban-Rural Conflict? Stop Looking for a Victor.
Whether red vs. blue or city vs. country, political tensions are best addressed by letting people run their own lives.
The World Is Getting Better, Declare Op-Eds in Leading Newspapers
Doomslayer Julian Simon vindicated after 40 years.
Illinois Bleeds Population for Fifth Year in a Row
Skyrocketing debt and pension obligations make for a tough labor environment.
Hooray! U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to 40-Year Low
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
The Coming Century of Environmental Renewal
A new article in BioScience vindicates The End of Doom.
The Amazing and Abundant Future
Ronald Bailey's 11-minute talk at Voice & Exit on the awesome 21st century.
Don't Freak Out About Falling Fertility Rates
There's an easy way to make more Americans: immigration.
Should the Government Try to Bribe You Into Having More Babies?
Increased wealth and technological progress give people greater liberty to decide when, how, with whom, and if they want to reproduce.
Yes, the Population of Africa Will Grow Tremendously This Century
Fortunately, even if conditions don't improve, economic freedom (and consequently growth) benefits not only the people who have it, but also people who don't.
High Population Density Just Might Be Good for You
For people, unlike rats, the human 'behavioral sink' seems to be greater creativity, not pathological collapse.
Hey Population Doomsters. People Aren't Rats: New at Reason
Population density portends greater creativity, not collapse
How Much Do You Really Know About the State of the World?
Take Hans Rosling's Test Your World Knowledge quiz and find out
Tom Hanks Endorses 'Malthusian Theory' of Overpopulation
Malthusianism might make a good movie plot, but it is just fiction.
Predictions of the Death of Wilderness May Be a Bit Premature
Most people are moving to cities and peak farmland is in the offing
Corn Yields Boosted 50 Percent by Biotechnologists
Malthusians are never right and never win.
The Unholy Anti-Immigration Alliance Between Pro-Life Conservatives and Population Control Weirdos
National Review is the sole link to respectability for neo-Malthusian, ultra-restrictionist outfits that enviros are shunning.
Residents Abandoning Chicago: Is It Following in Detroit's Footsteps?
Illinois' sources of revenues are leaving as government employees keep demanding more, more, more.
A U.S. Department of the Future Is a Really Bad Idea
Unfortunately, there is no shortage of would-be Secretaries of the Future.
Higher Populations, More Trade Leads to Progress, Higher Living Standards
Rationally optimistic.
China Drops Oppressive One-Child Policy: Too Late to Avoid Demographic Implosion
Reproductive central planning works as badly as economic central planning
Venessa Hughes of Buffalo, NY Hates The End of Doom, But You Might Like It
Library Journal reviews my new book, published today.
Doomster Paul Ehrlich Unrepentant: "My language would be even more apocalyptic today."
And still just as wrong
Friday A/V Club: Donald Duck Explains Birth Control
When Disney met the Population Council
Half the Number of Kids Die Before Age Five Now Than Did In 1990
Global life expectancy up more than six years too.
Is Capitalism Environmentally Unsustainable?
The goal must be to find ways for liberty and the environment to flourish together, not to sacrifice one in the vain hope of protecting the other.
Predictions of a Man-Made Sixth Mass Extinction May Be Exaggerated
Urbanization, forest, and agricultural trends point in a more hopeful direction