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That, says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, is a remarkable turnaround—especially since it is occurring at a time when America’s overall population is growing as slowly ...

A number of lawsuits brought by small businesses challenging Mr Trump’s reading of IEEPA met with success in lower courts. On ...

When the matter arrived at the Supreme Court in November, liberal and conservative justices alike seemed wary of endorsing a ...

VOS won a unanimous verdict at the Court of International Trade, a federal court that examines civil actions linked to ...

In 2024 India, with its vast population, produced by some estimates around a fifth of the world’s digital information—but had ...

The “Robin Hood” state, which takes from the rich to give to the poor, has obvious appeal. Governments across the developed ...

In late January polls showed One Nation, the movement of the anti-immigration firebrand Pauline Hanson, had overtaken the ...

In one sense, Mr Mountbatten-Windsor’s arrest is a sign of a healthy polity. None of the powerful Americans implicated in the ...

The president had claimed that two emergencies demanded the increase in tariff rates: a “public-health crisis” stemming from the importation of illegal drugs, and “large and persistent” trade deficits ...

The effect has more than outweighed the growth in inequality in much of the rich world, and almost kept pace with it even in ...