Over the past three decades the world has come to witness an ominous and entirely new form of gender discrimination: sex-selective feticide, implemented through the practice of surgical abortion with the assistance of information gained through prenatal gender determination technology.

The fierce battle over reform was based on the perception that Americans did not get good value for their money. That perception is wrong.

New data reveal that illegitimacy rates, which have been rising in America for nearly four decades, may have started to decline.

With a shrinking working-age population,there will be no one left totake care of the country's retirees.

Marking the birth of the 7 billionth person on earth, here are five myths challenging everything you think you know about the world's population.

Republicans are choosing between a candidate from a Belmont that's doing just fine and one who claims ties with a Fishtown that isn't what it used to be. Not an ideal choice.

In a recent working paper, World Population Prospects and the Global Economic Outlook, AEI political economist and demographer Nicholas Eberstadt examines global demographic prospects up to 2030 and assesses the impact that these population trends will have on the world's economic performance.

In this “Health Care 101” guide, Christopher J. Conover, author of the just-released “American Health Economy Illustrated,” distinguishes fact from fiction and answers some of the most fundamental questions about health care and health spending in America.