George Orwell was on to it almost 80 years ago — the problem of below-replacement level birth rates. In a short book written for the Britain in Pictures series in 1947, written just as Britain was emerging from wartime rigors into an uncharted postwar future, Orwell noted that despite an ...

It may seem that it's impossible to get anything done in Washington these days. Nevertheless, the free spirit of Americans cannot be suppressed. Americans are voting with their feet. Per the Census Bureau's just released annual report on population growth and migration in the U.S., ...

“It didn’t have to be this way.” That was my dominant takeaway leaving the Ogden Municipal Building where hundreds had gathered to protest US ICE’s methods of dealing with asylum seekers. Think of yourself waiting in a line 3.5 million people long, taking four or more years before ...

Am I sexist? I think there are differences between men and women -- traits beyond obvious physical ones. But when I was young, feminist leaders said there were no differences. The only reason men ran most things was sexism. There was plenty of that. One example people forget: Until ...

It seemed like the month of January 2026 would never end. It was definitely a wild one from our military kidnapping a Head of State in a foreign country, ICE shooting dead two protesters in Minneapolis, and the President’s threats to take over Greenland and then backing down while still ...

When I was young, I was so bummed that I had not been alive in the 1960s. My father regaled me with stories of his youth and how amazing it all was as this country struggled with questions about its soul. What did it mean when it said all men were created equal? Could we reframe that statement ...