L. Jon Wertheim

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Japan’s population crisis Modern Japan sounds like a sci-fi premise: the incredible shrinking country. Japan may have one of the longest national life expectancies, about 85 years, and the world's largest city, Tokyo. But the nation's population has been in decline for 15 years. Last year, more than two people died for every baby born — a net loss of almost a million people. And now, the island nation is on pace to shrink in halfby this century's end.

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Japan’s population crisis The world's population may have recently exceeded eight billion, but it's a deceptive number. Not only is growth unevenly distributed, but in so many countries, population is in decline. In some cases, steep, deep decline.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Jon Wertheim |L. Jon Wertheim |Aliza Chasan

Greenlanders to U.S.: We're not for sale President Trump's focus on taking control of Greenland, a self-governing territory of the Kingdom of Denmark, has upset many in the Arctic. Mr. Trump's Greenland fixation is offensive to Aqqaluk Lynge, an elder Inuit statesman who once represented the Arctic population at the United Nations. Around 57,000 people live in Greenland, a population that's largely Inuit, an indigenous Arctic people of Alaska, Canada, and Greenland.

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Greenlanders to U.S.: We're not for sale With a landmass three times that of Texas, but with a population—just 57,000—able to fit comfortably inside an NFL stadium, Greenland has long been a forgotten outpost. No more. The world's largest island is suddenly the belle of the geopolitical ball, with outsized consequences. President Trump offered to buy the territory from the Danish government that controls it.

1 month ago | cbsnews.com | Jon Wertheim |L. Jon Wertheim |Aliza Chasan

George Clooney always meant for "Good Night, and Good Luck," the story of pioneering CBS News reporter Edward R. Murrow, to echo today, but he didn't realize how loudly it would. He co-wrote the original screenplay in the early 2000s, when the U.S. went to war in Iraq because he wanted to remind people about a time "when the press held government to account," Clooney told 60 Minutes.