Unease with rapid demographic change is a major driving force in our politics. Neopopulist parties advocating tougher immigration restrictions continue to advance in Europe, most recently in Spain ...

Appeals Court Upholds Trump’s Firing of Head of Special Counsel Office — for Now Trump Mistakes Weakness for Strength The Supreme Court Should Not Encourage a One-Judge Constitutional Crisis ...

Like apartheid-era South African whites, today’s Republicans will need to choose between an accommodation with the coming ...

It’s a truism that demography is destiny—and that includes the financial destiny of states. Although the population of the 50 ...

Stay up-to-date with free briefings on topics that matter to all Californians. Subscribe to CalMatters today for nonprofit news in your inbox. California is a living laboratory for the observation ...

What will the world look like in 2050? Some trends are easy to forecast—like demographics. Based on birthrate trends and life expectancies, the UN projects the Earth’s population will top 9.7 ...

After Economist correspondent Tim Judah almost died from food poisoning his wife took him to Liguria in Italy to recover. Out of season, he noticed that there seemed to be a lot of old people ...

California is a living laboratory for the observation that demography is destiny, first uttered by the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte. During the first 150 years of its statehood ...

California is a living laboratory for the observation that demography is destiny, first uttered by the 19th century French philosopher Auguste Comte. During the first 150 years of its statehood, ...