economic

Assessing the impact of the UK's decision to leave the EU on the economy has been tricky given the multiple economic shocks in recent years.

"Bottom line, it's not a good story," he will say, describing how productivity has fallen since the 2008 economic crash and has not recovered since.

While violence and persecution and economic opportunity remain the primary drivers pushing migrants into the U.S., the evidence increasingly also points to climate change as a growing factor.

The intensifying economic and environmental pressures of the warming climate are now beginning to drive new wedges into old divisions.

Global warming would “put strictures on the economic growth that has been the great social salve that has kept some groups, in some measure, from each other’s throats,” he told his close friend Otis Graham, the University of California, Santa Barbara, historian.