Is the Great Stagnation Over?
Yes. Get ready for the Roaring Twenties.
United States
Despite Starkly Different COVID-19 Policies, the U.S. and the U.K. Saw Similar Drops in Cases Around the Same Time
The same is true of Texas and California, which suggests that legal restrictions are not as important as politicians imagine.
U.S. Cancer Death Rate Continues 30-Year Decline While the Incidence Rate Is Flat
Good news from the latest Cancer Statistics 2021 report
Taghi Amirani on the Legacy of the U.S.-Backed Coup in Iran
Amirani argues that the 1953 coup became the "playbook" for future U.S. covert actions in countries such as Guatemala, Vietnam, and Chile.
Salvaging Secession
The Founders understood union as a strategic necessity, not a moral imperative.
How Much Difference Do COVID-19 Lockdowns Make?
The comparison between Sweden and the U.S. casts doubt on the importance of broad legal restrictions.
The COVID-19 Death Toll Is Rising Much Faster in the U.S. Than in Sweden, Which Now Has Fewer Deaths Per Capita
The trends suggest that Sweden's less restrictive policy has been more successful at reducing fatal outcomes.
Did Sweden Accidentally Blunder into COVID-19 Herd Immunity?
If so, that could be really good news for the rest of the world.
India's New Nationalism, and Ours
Most immigrants, even more than many natives, viscerally appreciate America, because they know what it's like to live in an unfree country.
Leaders of 'Rogue Regimes' Have Some Thoughts About Police Brutality in America
Statements by China, Iran, Russia, Venezuela, and North Korea use U.S. violence against protesters and journalists to point out American hypocrisy on the global stage.
The U.S. Baby Bust Continues
The total fertility rate falls to its lowest level ever.
U.S. Fever Trends Suggest COVID-19 Rates Could Soon Decline
"3 to 7 days after a stay-at-home order is enacted, fevers in that community start to drop."
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
Are We Battling an Unprecedented Pandemic or Panicking at a Computer-Generated Mirage?
A close look at the new study from Imperial College which models worst-case scenarios and makes the case for social distancing.
How Badly Could the Novel Coronavirus Epidemic Whack the U.S. Economy?
Looking at better and worse projections.
Trump Says the COVID-19 Death Rate Will Be 'A Fraction of 1 Percent.' Is He Right?
It's too early to tell, but there are reasons for (relative) optimism.
Did the Trump Administration Overpromise 1 Million COVID-19 Diagnostic Tests by the End of This Week?
The FDA has finally approved commercial diagnostic tests.
Big Biotech Is Hustling To Beat Coronavirus
People are panicking and sketchy information is spreading fast, but rapid vaccine and anti-viral deployment should blunt the epidemic's health and economic effects in the coming year.
Peak Carbon Emissions?
Emissions reductions in rich countries are being offset by increases in developing countries.
U.S. Life Expectancy Increases for the First Time in 4 Years
Thanks to the first fall in drug overdose deaths since 1990, plus a continuing decline in cancer deaths
Coup 53
A new documentary highlights the role played by the CIA and Britain's MI6 in overthrowing Iran's duly elected prime minister back in 1953.
What Do We Owe to People Whose Countries We Have Broken?
The case for offering victims of our foreign policy a chance to get out and start over.
Death Rate of Middle-Aged Americans Rises for Third Year
U.S. life expectancy peaked in 2014.
Trump's Trade Deal With Japan Is Good. Staying in the TPP Would Have Been Better.
Signing a trade with Japan is a small step in the right direction, but it only cancels out a portion of the damage that Donald Trump has done.
Extreme Climate Change Has Arrived in America, Says The Washington Post
Rising temperatures are mostly happening in the winter and at night.
U.S. Fertility Falls to Lowest Rate Ever
The number of children that families choose to have is none of the government's business.
The New York Times Says Heat Waves Are Getting Worse. The National Climate Assessment Disagrees.
At least in the lower 48 states.
How To Get Better at Budgets
In a few countries, legislators have enacted policies that actually constrain spending. The U.S. has a lot to learn.
Army Tweets 'How Has Serving Impacted You?' Gets Thousands of Responses About the Horrors of War
"My cousin committed suicide while on duty at the armory after coming home from a tour abroad."
Quit Worrying and Learn To Love Trade With China
Fretting over deficits and intellectual property will do no good and much harm.
Trump Praises America's Oil and Natural Gas Production in State of the Union Address
The U.S. is the world's biggest producer of oil and natural gas
Fewer U.S. Cold Waves
Cold waves aren't as common as they used to be, but research suggests that climate change could still make polar vortexes worse.
What We Don't Know About U.S. Airstrikes in Somalia and Everywhere Else
The war continues and it's costing lives.
After Living Abroad, Kids Struggle With American Overparenting
In the home of the brave, a kid can't hold a pencil on the school bus.
Is Climate Change Making Hurricanes More Destructive?
Not yet in the United States, new studies suggest
U.S. Baby Bust Fears Inspire a Radical Policy Proposal
Is the solution a "fertility dividend" that makes a portion of a person's Social Security benefit dependent on each of their offspring's earnings?
National Climate Report Projects Future Weather and Economic Trends
"Climate-related threats to Americans' physical, social, and economic well-being are rising," says report.
U.S. Total Fertility Rates Continue To Fall
Falling fertility means that folks now have increasing power to choose the number of children that they wish to have.
We Are in the Midst of the Third Bogus 'White Extinction' Panic in Just as Many Centuries
Anti-immigrant fearmongers of demographic doom proved wrong in the 19th and 20th centuries, and today's will be no different.
Every European Union Country Is Failing to Meet Their Climate Change Commitments
Meanwhile U.S. carbon dioxide emissions continue to fall
Inclusive vs. Exclusive Whiteness in Census Bureau Data
Projections of minority-majority U.S. population are based on outdated and arbitrary ethno-racial Census categories.
Hooray! U.S. Fertility Rate Falls to 40-Year Low
Exercising reproductive freedom is a good thing.
Paris Agreement Climate Change
Carbon Dioxide: U.S. Emissions Down, European Emissions Up
Despite the E.U.'s carbon markets and vast renewable energy subsidies
