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Olive oil and snake oil
Places claiming to be centenarian hotspots may just have bad data
Adopting birth certificates appears to cut the lifespans of the very old
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Republicans are turning against Ukraine
The House is looking increasingly divided amid talks of more aid
China’s demography
China’s “demographic dividend” appears to be a myth
If youth didn’t drive past growth, is ageing bound to be disastrous?
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Are American children’s books getting more “woke”?
A new study suggests not—at least in representation of race and gender
Measure for measure
Global democratic backsliding seems real, even if it is hard to measure
Our analysis highlights two measures of governance that have diverged in recent years
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Europe, not America, is now Ukraine’s largest backer
Commitments from the EU and its member states are worth almost twice as much as those from America
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The old have come to dominate American politics
Voters say they favour age limits for elected officials
Bad vibrations
The pandemic has broken a closely followed survey of sentiment
Americans’ opinions about the state of the economy have diverged from reality