Demography

Disasters usually come with falling birth rates. But this time, they might not recover unless governments take action now.

Artificial intelligence can help fix it.

Ageism has colored the response to COVID-19 and is setting everyone up for a more difficult economic recovery.

But to avoid collapse like the Soviet Union, inclusivity must begin now.

Great-power politics in Nagorno-Karabakh, the children of the Islamic State, and the meaning of Moldova’s election result.

Younger Russians are dissatisfied with the regime but are generally apolitical. Here’s how to change that.

Nine experts on the future of education after the pandemic.

Shaming violators alone won’t stop the use of child soldiers and other human rights abuses. Defending children’s rights requires engagement with governments and armed groups.

By removing Saudi Arabia and other serial violators of children’s human rights from the annual list of shame, António Guterres is weakening one of the U.N.’s most effective accountability mechanisms.

China has swung toward natalist policies for the majority while forcibly sterilizing ethnic minorities.

Migration and higher fertility can’t alter the course of Europe’s graying, but there is a strategy to avoid disaster.

Malnutrition is passed from one generation to the next between mother and child—unless someone commits to stopping the deadly cycle.

There are plenty of innovative policies to revive rural areas—and trade wars aren’t among them.

Millennials on the left and right are getting tired of their country’s politics of centrism—and trouble in the governing coalition shows it.

American millennials may resent their baby boomer elders for ruining the world, but generational politics in mainland China and Hong Kong are more complicated.

Leaving thousands of detained Islamic State supporters and their families in poorly guarded camps poses a national security threat for Europe and the United States.

A generation of Afghans came of age amid relentless violence. Saturday’s election offers little hope for help.

The war against Boko Haram saw kids drafted by both sides. Now they need assistance and a post-conflict future.

On the podcast: The filmmaker Nanfu Wang tells the harrowing story of her own family’s one-child ordeal.

The relationship among birthrates, gender norms, and work culture is more complicated than you think.