Population Next
Bradley SchurmanPopulation Next is a podcast and newsletter from Bradley Schurman examining the future of people, places, and prosperity—tracking how demographic change, artificial intelligence, and climate pressures are redrawing the map.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Only free issues | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 148 | Founded | a year ago | Last Issue | 7 days ago |
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Missouri innovation districts, Cleveland's lakefront art, Central Texas floods, New York data center moratorium — and more
St. Louis
This week: Missouri signs legislation to convert vacant downtown buildings into housing, and Cleveland’s lakefront redevelopment gets an unconventional anchor. Central Texas floods again, a year after last summer’s deadly...
The 10 Worst States to Live In... Or the Best?
Nashville, Tennessee
CNBC just published its list of America’s 10 worst states to live in for 2026. It includes Tennessee, Texas, Indiana, Louisiana, Georgia, Utah, Missouri, Alabama, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The ranking comes from t...
NYC language map, new heat dome, Illinois signs nation's strictest AI law — and more
A Note From Me
I turned in the manuscript for The Geography of Prosperity to my editor at MIT Press this week.
That starts a long process, which includes peer review, editing, layout, and marketing. It could take a year (or mor...
Birthright holds, heat wave grips nation, AI stress test — and more
Demographic Change
The Supreme Court kept the citizenship clause intact. On June 30, the Court ruled that the Fourteenth Amendment guarantees citizenship to nearly all people born on U.S. soil, rejecting the administration’s exe...
The Reform Was the Easy Part
In 2019, Minneapolis did something no major American city had done. It got rid of single-family-only zoning across the whole city, so duplexes and triplexes could go up on lots that had held one house apiece for a century. The plan b...
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Bradley Schurman is the author of The Super Age (HarperCollins) and the forthcoming The Geography of Prosperity (MIT Press). Founder & CEO of Human Change and author of the Population Next newsletter.
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