Russell Contreras

As exurban cities near booming metro areas explode in growth, hundreds of U.S. communities are losing residents at a pace that signals deep structural decline.

Texas has gained more than 2.5 million new residents since 2020 — roughly the entire population of New Mexico — reshaping the electorate and injecting new uncertainty into this year's marquee Senate race.

FILE - Dolores Huerta, the Mexican-American social activist who formed a farm workers union with Cesar Chavez, stands for the Pledge of Allegiance in Spanish while visiting the New Mexico

Artificial intelligence models are quietly shaping spiritual advice — often by leaving faith out.

Small towns are adding residents at the fastest rates.

California is losing people from suburbs year after year, revealing a deeper demographic shift reshaping America's most populous state.

The rise of the "post-literate" worker.

The next fight over extremism data.

Why Americans still see hope for 2050.

The demographic shift is most visible in early childhood and K-12 education.