After Barack Obama’s election in 2008, the phrase was on the lips of progressive prognosticators everywhere. A permanent alignment had arrived. The growing ranks of Latinos, the reliably liberal ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Scientists, individually and through their national academies, have often pointed to the major role of population growth in damaging ...

The past two decades has seen remarkable advances in our understanding of the health and well-being of the older population. The workshop looked at these recent trends and set the stage for the next ...

"The Global Baby Bust," by Phillip Longman (May/June 2004), offers a new version of an old fear: the threat of population decline, which has emerged periodically throughout the past century as a major ...

Simply sign up to the Global Economy myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. James Carville won the Presidency for Bill Clinton in 1992 with a sign in the campaign’s headquarters saying “The ...

The Republican party did better this year among women, young adults, blacks, Hispanics, and singles than it did in 2012, when President Barack Obama relied on the new demographic coalition that the ...

Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. The importance of demography for U.S. immigration is finally getting its due.

Contemporary world population patterns are shaped by the “demographic transition” concept introduced to the field by the great demographer Frank Notestein several generations ago. That schema offers a ...

These are challenging times for brand. One challenge cannot be controlled. This is the challenge of demography. This challenge will require brands to leverage strategic dexterity and insightful ...

WALLACE STEGNER, a novelist, once called California “America…only more so”. To judge by population estimates released on May 2nd, the state is still America, but slightly less so. The population fell ...