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| Operating in the Dark |
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| House Republicans want to slash the budgets for the nation’s basic surveys, which would reduce understanding of what is happening in the economy. |
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| Mind the Baby Gap |
By STEVEN PHILIP KRAMER |
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| Unless they do something about their low birthrates, developed societies will face a dangerous imbalance. |
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| Nigeria's Population Is Soaring In Preview of a Global Problem |
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL |
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| Nigeria's booming population, which may exceed 300 million people in a quarter-century, is emblematic of a wider population problem across sub-Saharan Africa; trends that have reduced fertility rates elsewhere in the developing world have not yet caught on, and population has quickly outstripped economic expansion; Nigeria has now become a crucial test case for government efforts to reduce the birthrate, including free contraceptives. Photos, Charts |
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| Pulling Back From the Exurbs |
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| When the housing market collapsed, so did the boom of the outer suburbs where growth had been fastest before the recession. The tentative economic recovery has not led to a revival. |
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| The Other Arab Spring |
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN |
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 Environmental pressures, not just political and economic ones, stirred change in the Mideast. |
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| Sustainably Feeding a Changing World |
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| A new vision of how we farm and how we eat, and of how to take better care of this planet’s biological resources, will be needed to provide food for a growing population. |
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