We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.
Although an increasing proportion of the Hispanic population is foreign-born - about half of adults in this group - English proficiency is and should remain a requirement for citizenship.
Britons seem to have given up on assimilating their Muslim population, with many British elites patting themselves on the back for their tolerance and multiculturalism.
The military has been tremendously important in the past during catastrophes and in protecting the population. But it shouldn't become an auxiliary police force.
In the 1820s, the U.S., Japan, and the U.K. were some of the only countries where the average population received at least two years of formal schooling.
Schools that are to cater for the whole population must offer courses that are as rich and varied as are the needs and abilities of the children who enter them.
For too long, we financed our schools in a way that has systematically left large segments of our population behind.
South America's most populous country, Brazil, is also emerging as one of the region's most social-media savvy.
The Sierra Club in the United States has now really come out for population control and reduction.
As population susceptibilities are better understood, we will be in a better position than we are in today to make informed decisions about risk management.
Mass literacy is a phenomenon of the past few centuries, and one that has reached the majority of the world's adult population only within the past 75 years.
For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.
After working for TV, you realise that the majority of the population still wonders where their next meal is coming from.
The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.
Currently, Boston has only nine percent of the state's population - but we provide more than 16 percent of the jobs and 19 percent of the state's revenues.
Unfortunately, in the north and the south of Ireland, intolerant habits are part of the fabric of emotion, part of the identity crisis which afflicts the population of the country.
With its population making up one fifth of the world's total, China offers a market with enormous potential.
The great city of New York wields more of the destinies of this great nation that five times the population of any other portion of the country.
I think anybody would be hard pressed not to relate to at least one of the characters, because there's so many different multifaceted people populating this crazy world.
We can survive as a population only if we conserve, develop sustainably, and protect the world's resources.
Even before the earthquake in Haiti, only half the country's population had a source of safe drinking water.
