The biggest little scandal in Washington right now is how bad Patel is at being FBI director.

From Bangkok to Berlin, people everywhere are having fewer babies—and the decline is happening faster than many demographers predicted. Pro-natalist politicians and the odd tech billionaire warn of labour shortages, debt spirals and retirement crises. But not everyone agrees that catastrophe is inevitable. Our top economics editors consider the evidence on what baby-bust economics means for the world’s prosperity—and your pension.

The Earth will be quite a bit more crowded in 2050—with nearly 2.5 billion more people than now.

After the George Floyd protests, a former military contractor named Nathan Seabrook brought the war home.