The Long Shadow Ledger·3d agoSouth korea's fertility crash is draining its reserve ranks firstSeoul's 0.75 fertility rate hasn't yet thinned the active-duty army — it has gutted the trained reserve that would fight a second Korean…
Bill Natbony·4d agoDemographics and Artificial Intelligence“AI should be the antidote to America’s demographic decline.” — The Lonely Realist
Miguel Morales·5d agoSpain at a Crossroads: The Clash Over Immigration and the Future of the Welfare StateImmigration has rapidly emerged as the second major battleground of Spain’s snap election campaign, exposing deep demographic anxieties…
The Long Shadow Ledger·6d agoEast asia's officer corps is ageing faster than its conscript armiesSouth Korea's active-duty force fell from 618,000 in 2018 to about 500,000 in 2023, and the men who run the battalions are now the oldest…
Rod D. Martin·6d agoThe Democrats’ Map Is Collapsing… If We Can Make It to 2030The number of Census Bureau tricks engineered to pad Democrat House and Electoral Vote totals is staggering. But the 2030 Census may hand…
Diogo Ribeiro·Oct 29The Denominator MovedPortugal’s pension projections assumed net migration of 82,000 in 2022, falling to about 16,000 a year by 2030. The revised count for 2022…
InSmall Towns, Real IdeasbyJC Shepard·Oct 27Better Ways to Measure SuccessWhen most people talk about a successful community, they talk about more people, more jobs, more tax revenue. Yet, as I asked the Inland…A response icon1A response icon1
HASINA AKTER·Oct 26The Youngest and Oldest Countries in the World: Two Nations, Two Different FuturesOne country is filled with children dreaming about what they might become. Another is learning how to live in a world where more people are…A response icon1A response icon1
ChanRioNet·Oct 23What Japan Needs from Prime Minister TakaichiJapan’s Prime Minister is Sanae Takaichi, and her approval ratings are high.