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Social Security and Aging

There Is No Social Security Crisis
Critics of Social Security have long perpetuated the myth that the system will eventually go bankrupt. It's time to dispel that claim once and for all.
February 24, 2009 | By Paul Waldman | web only

How Entitlement Reform Became Health Reform
Why progressives should stop worrying and learn to love today's White House Fiscal Summit.
February 23, 2009 | By Ezra Klein | web only

Battle of the Budget Slideshows
Budget hawks are trying to convince the public that we face an unavoidable choice between cutting social programs and budgetary Armageddon. But in reality, our budgetary problems stem from our out-of-control health care system.
June 10, 2008 | By Mark Schmitt

Hold that Tax
Social Security does not face an urgent crisis, and its problems do not need to be addressed now by a tax increase.
November 19, 2007 | By Paul Starr

Responsible Fools: How the Democratic Candidates Got into a Social Security Fix
Do Social Security's potential fiscal problems in the 2040s really need to be addressed now by an increase in the payroll tax? It's not brave for the Democrats to put themselves on record for a tax increase -- it's just plain dumb.
November 5, 2007 | By Paul Starr | web only

PART-ing Shots
The Bush administration's curiously one-sided good-government tool
November 20, 2005 | By Ryan Grim

They're Ba-ack
Actually, they never went away. The Social Security privatizers, quiet over the summer, are merely gearing up for the next battle in a long war.
September 18, 2005 | By Joe Conason

End of the Private New Deal
From our July issue: As Republicans loudly threaten the public New Deal, the corporate version quietly slips away.
June 20, 2005 | By Paul Starr | web only

Lesson Learned
The administration botched its assault on Social Security. Don't expect it to happen again.
June 19, 2005 | By Mark Schmitt

Beyond “No”
June 19, 2005 | By Robert B. Reich

Amsterdam and Alabama
Europe has its economic problems; we've got ours. The two are not the same.
June 7, 2005 | By Matthew Yglesias | web only

Index Fun
As long as the administration puts out disastrous privatization plans, liberals will keep on opposing them.
May 10, 2005 | By Matthew Yglesias | web only

Roses and Thorns
Just in time for Mother's Day, President Bush announces a Social Security plan that's terrible for women.
May 6, 2005 | By Amy Chasanov | web only

Half Credit
Bush's Social Security plan -- that is, non-plan -- just gets more and more unpopular. But the Democrats shouldn't revel in their brilliance.
April 19, 2005 | By Marie Cocco

The Taxonomist: Wild Pitch
At the same time Republicans try to cut Social Security benefits, they're increasing them for the wealthiest recipients.
April 19, 2005 | By Robert S. McIntyre

Sunny Forecast
Social Security trustees should trust productivity.
April 15, 2005 | By Jared Bernstein and Josh Bivens | web only

Antisocial Security
Republicans aren't greedy. They just don't believe in equality.
March 22, 2005 | By Jon Margolis | web only

Must Joe Go?
It may be a fool's errand to run a primary against an incumbent senator. But some Nutmeg Staters are in search of one brave fool.
March 20, 2005 | By Matthew Yglesias

The President's Gift
The Social Security privatization battle gives liberals more than just a good shot at a legislative victory. It gives them a chance to define themselves.
March 10, 2005 | By Greg Anrig | web only

Lockhart and Barrel
A top Social Security administrator is moonlighting as a partial-privatization lobbyist.
February 25, 2005 | By Rob Garver | web only

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