Eight months after taking office, Donald Trump has blocked an astonishing amount of the cash America once sent abroad. In April officials had barely shut down USAID, America’s biggest foreign-aid ...

In the face of shrinking populations, many of the world's major economies are trying to engineer higher birth rates. Policymakers from South Korea, Japan and Italy, for example, have all adopted ...

Pew Research Center conducted this study to understand Americans’ views of problems facing the country. For this analysis, we surveyed 5,086 adults from Jan. 27 to Feb. 2, 2025. Everyone who took part ...

Since the 2021 military coup in Myanmar, the country has experienced a resurgence of political violence. Fighting has flared up along old and new conflict lines: the military and democratic opposition ...