America's version of capitalism has been much more dynamic than Europe's. Why don't Obama and Romney debate that?

The correlation between religious and moral values and voting behavior was not operative a generation ago.

Everybody who pays attention to these sorts of things knows Muslim societies are almost uniquely immune to the forces that have been driving down fertility rates on every continent for decades. But everybody, it seems, fell asleep before the final act.

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

China's "one child policy" has already driven China's birth rate below the replacement level in the name of accelerating the country's economic development.

Europe’s current debt crises are a consequence of a region-wide crisis of the welfare state, whose vast promised benefits voters demand, yet are unwilling to finance through self-taxation.

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

America is exceptional for many reasons; among them, childbearing patterns and immigration absorption.