Social Security

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  • Does Social Security shortchange blacks?

    Bush says it does -- but the facts show that he's dealing this race card off the bottom of the deck.
    By Farhad Manjoo February 4, 2005

  • Yesterday, today and tomorrow

    Table Talkers share distant and recent memories, and ponder the future of Social Security.
    February 4, 2005

  • The truth hurts

    Bush used windy rhetoric and outright deception to sell his privatization plan. What else is new?
    By Joe Conason February 3, 2005

  • Bush's dirty little secret

    Here's what the president didn't tell you in his State of the Union address: His plan to privatize Social Security will be hugely expensive and will make the average worker worse off.
    By Jeff Madrick February 3, 2005

  • Power to the people

    In a gutsy move, the president proposes to privatize the federal deficit by creating a debt ownership society, one "that will allow the have-nots to fully have naught."
    By Joyce McGreevy February 3, 2005

  • Making the case for Social Insecurity

    The struggle over Social Security will be the defining political battle of Bush's second term. His game plan: The same one he used to successfully sell the Iraq war.
    By Farhad Manjoo February 2, 2005

  • Bush's inaugural address exposed

    "My promise to the American people: To cast a wide net for freedom, from the ancient ruins of Enron to the future ruins of Iran."
    By Joyce McGreevy January 20, 2005

  • Regime change that could destroy our homeland

    Bush's plan for dismantling Social Security would have dire economic consequences, and Republicans who support it had better be prepared for a backlash.
    By Sidney Blumenthal January 20, 2005

  • Can Bush deliver for conservatives?

    Lacking Reagan's pragmatic streak, the president may find it impossible to unite a party deeply divided on social, foreign policy and budget issues.
    By Matthew Dallek November 30, 2004

  • The media gives Bush a mandate

    Falling to its knees in record time, the press predicts the president will be a uniter this time -- really.
    By Eric Boehlert November 10, 2004

  • The curse of Bush II

    Yes, the devastation will be extreme. The good news? He'll sow his own destruction.
    By Dennis Jett November 8, 2004

  • Schieffer was wrong, Kerry was right

    Contrary to the moderator's suggestion in the third debate, Social Security is not running out of money. And the Democratic candidate wasn't pandering when he said privatizing it would be disastrous.
    By James K. Galbraith October 14, 2004

  • Social Security scare campaign

    Lending his voice to the privatization lobby, Alan Greenspan warns that the U.S. can no longer care for its elderly.
    By James K. Galbraith August 31, 2004

  • Four more years?

    William Kristol, Dick Armey, Paul Weyrich and others tell the president how he can retake the White House.
    Compiled by Salon staff August 27, 2004

  • And you thought his first term was a nightmare

    What Bush has planned for America if he wins.
    By Charles Tiefer August 25, 2004

  • Sen. Moynihan's prophetic words

    Just days before he died, my father told me, "The war will last two weeks. It's the 10-year occupation you have to worry about."
    By Maura Moynihan July 29, 2004

  • "Running on Empty" by Peter G. Peterson

    Bush's tax cuts have squandered an era of prosperity and doomed our kids to a crippled economy, argues the former secretary of commerce. But the Democrats, he insists in this dark and brilliant jeremiad, have done no better.
    By Farhad Manjoo July 21, 2004

  • Don't sweat the small stuff

    A $5 trillion deficit? Bring it on, says our man at the OMB.
    By Joyce McGreevy July 28, 2003

  • The plot to kill Social Security

    Bush's tax cuts won't do much to create jobs or boost economic growth, but they will bankrupt the nation's retirement program. That's the plan, anyway.
    By Farhad Manjoo June 12, 2003

  • March of the "lucky duckies"

    How did a callous and inaccurate argument for taxing the poor become part of the conservative agenda and the White House playbook?
    By Farhad Manjoo December 21, 2002

  • White House economic policy: Confusion

    Stephen Friedman was set to be the next chair of Bush's National Economic Council. Then he wasn't. Then he was again. Clearly, the man has enemies.
    By Anthony York December 11, 2002

  • A case of mistaken distortion

    A GOP powerhouse is forced to disavow a radio ad, aimed at African-Americans, that compares Social Security to "reverse reparations."
    By Ben Fritz September 13, 2002

  • Antisocial security

    Republicans who argue that savings accounts can save Social Security are hiding the risks -- and the true costs.
    By Ben Fritz August 3, 2002

  • Another brilliant idea from the GOP

    Hey, let's give all our hard-earned Social Security money to those trustworthy people on Wall Street!
    By Joe Conason April 29, 2002

  • Mail fraud

    The GOP's attempt to mail Social Security guarantees turns postal workers into campaign operatives.
    By Ben Fritz February 25, 2002
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