Security breach

by Timothy Lamer

Cover Story | A large, looming shortfall faces the Social Security system, and members of Congress have several options for dealing with it: cut and paste, tax and spend, or borrow and invest. Their choice will have to appeal to both retirees and young wage-earners

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Fertility trouble

by Timothy Lamer

Cover Story Sidebar | Politicians tend to talk about Social Security's shortfall as if it is a force of nature like a hurricane or a tornado, something that will happen independent of human choices. In his State of the Union address, for example, President Bush pointed out that 50 years ago, 16 workers paid into Social Security for every retiree who drew benefits. Today, he said, "it's only about three workers and over the next few decades, that number will fall to just two workers per beneficiary." This is

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Crisis proportions

by Timothy Lamer

Cover Story Sidebar | In his State of the Union speech, President Bush was like the lookout man on the Titanic who yelled, "Iceberg, right ahead!" Unless Washington acts soon, he said, Social Security will begin sinking in 2018. In their responses, Democratic leaders have sounded more like the Titanic's owners, who insisted that the massive steamer was unsinkable. Social Security will stay afloat for at least another four decades, they said, and probably even longer. Who is correct, then? President Bush chose

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In this issue: "Social Security breach," Feb. 19, 2005

Surgical strike

by Bob Jones

Politics | President's budget applies the first knife domestic spending has felt in years

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Operation seduction

by Bob Jones

International | Europeans make nice with Condi in lead-up to Bush visit

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From breadbasket to basket case

by Priya Abraham

Africa | Waiting for tyranny to exhaust itself, Zimbabweans look next door

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Tormented genius

by Roberta Green Ahmanson

Culture | With paint as his medium, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio displayed the darkness of the human soul, but also the power and hope of forgiveness

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From mental disorder to civil-rights cause

by Marvin Olasky

Interview | Psychiatrist and Princeton law professor traces the advances of the gay-rights agenda in science and the law to a common source: political intimidation

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Abortion by race

by Anthony Bradley

Politics | With two in five African-American pregnancies ending in abortion, are black voters beginning to look beyond loyalty to Democrats and vote pro-life?

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Quotables

by The Editors

"First of all I'd like to thank God." New England Patriots wide receiver Deion Branch after he was named Super Bowl MVP. "I don't fathom the argument that…

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From cupidity to treachery?

by Marvin Olasky

Several journalists have come under fire from the media for their lack of ethical standards, but CNN's Eason Jordan has not

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The Buzz

by The Editors

White House President Bush continued his national campaign for Social Security reform, barnstorming through Pennsylvania and North Carolina on Feb. 10 to drum…

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Quick Takes

by The Editors

In the driver's seat What Sgt. Jay Osga saw at about 1:30 a.m. gives new meaning to signs in car windows that read "Baby on Board." During the policeman's…

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