Boomers Could Cause a ‘Silver Tsunami.’ Is It a Crisis or an Opportunity?

Mad about the price of eggs? How about the dearth of new homes, skyrocketing cost of…

Antiabortion states are facing a brain drain and a population loss

It wasn’t a stretch to predict that the strict abortion bans in states such as Texas,…

Opinion | A Youthful Africa Steps Up

Much of the world is accustomed to thinking of Africa as an impoverished sideshow, accounting for…

China’s Population Declines for 3rd Straight Year

To get its citizens to have more children and stop its population from shrinking, China has…

Hiltzik: Hoover Institution gets California job growth wrong, again

Last week, while most sensible Californians were concerning themselves with Thanksgiving preparations, the California-bashing right wing…

Hiltzik: Are women and babies the property of the state? Red states say ‘yes!’

The arguments made by antiabortion states to sugarcoat their manifestly misogynistic policies have always borne the…

Reviving the woolly mammoth could save species that still exist

As more species are pushed to the brink of extinction, conservationists are responding to our biodiversity…