India’s prime minister has always insisted that the government exists to serve. When he rose to national office in 2014, he declared that he was not the country’s prime minister but its “chief servant ...

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That, says Hamilton Lombard, a demographer at the University of Virginia, is a remarkable turnaround—especially since it is occurring at a time when America’s overall population is growing as slowly ...