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By narrowing down the United States' population to a village of one hundred people, the author offers up statistics about nationalities, familes, religion, occupations, wealth, health, age, and energy use.

What would actually make America great: more people. If the most challenging crisis in living memory has shown us anything, it's that America has lost the will and the means to lead. We can't compete with the huge clusters of the global marketplace with our crumbling transit and unaffordable housing- or by letting our population diminish. Exactly how many Americans do we need to win? According to Matthew Yglesias, one billion. One Billion Americans...

Inside the hard-fought battles and secret negotiations over immigration reform on Capitol Hill. Explore President Obama's push for policy changes that could affect the fate of millions and define what it means to be American for decades to come.

"A widely-read Washington Post columnist takes a deep dive into what the end of the baby boom means for American politics and economics. Philip Bump, a reporter as adept with a graph as with a paragraph, is popular for his ability to distill vast amounts of data into accessible stories. THE AFTERMATH is a sweeping assessment of how the baby boom created modern America, and where power, wealth, and politics will shift as the boom ends. How much longer...