Japanese are disappearing in slow motion and so far, there is no rescue plan.

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.

Any serious discussion of race must address out-of-wedlock births.

I was initially assigned the working title, "Pursuing Equality in Health Care for the Elderly Is Futile." I prefer to think of that particular dead end of health policy as one of listening to the wrong music for too long. Hence, this article revises the title song of the movie, Urban Cowboy, to "Looking for better health [rather than either "love" or "love of equality"] in all the wrong places.

The progress enjoyed by an overwhelming majority of women in the West stands in stark contrast to the different reality for women outside the West.

China will be the first great power in Asia to suffer from atwenty-first century "bride shortage."

Since 1994, welfare caseloads have fallen an astounding 60 percent nationwide, with inner-city declines almost as deep. However assessing welfare reform's long-term impact is complicated. Single mothers are working in greater numbers, but the number of disadvantaged men in the workforce remains low. Welfare caseloads have decreased and incomes...

A new UN report wrongly urges governments to curb supposed overpopulation problems.