Social Security: It Ain’t Broke
It’s a basic part of what makes America run, like our national highway system.
My Broken Heart
I have to figure out whether I want to spend my last years writing about this new country.
How the Rich Welsh on Retirement Taxes
Withdrawal rules provide big tax breaks to the retirees who need them the least.
The Freedom to Die with Dignity
Catholic hospitals follow an edict that requires them to override do-not-resuscitate orders.
Chained COLAs and the Battle over Social Security
The supercommittee shouldn’t have considered this unreasonable, unprincipled, and unfair cost-cutting plan.
The New Caregiving Movement
With Medicare and Medicaid on the chopping block at the state and federal levels, the crisis for seniors and people with disabilities is becoming as urgent as the crisis facing the workers who are caring for them.
Stay Healthy
There are a thousand ways to die and every one of them has a lobbyist working for it in Washington. You are the only lobbyist working for No. 1.
America’s Expendable Workers
Keeping unions at bay is an art form.
It’s Still Not Easy to Die Peacefully
Patients everywhere writhe in pain and indignity, families languish in grief, and physicians fidget in perplexity.
Elders’ Safety Net Could Fray After Nov. 2
Privatizing Social Security would be a trick, not a treat.
Happy Birthday, Social Security
For millions of Americans, it’s the line of demarcation between sustainability and abject poverty.
Leaving Granny Behind
Will the Fiscal Commission vote to impoverish older women?
As Death Nears, Be Prepared to Suffer
For those whose life has simply grown unlivable, help is in order.
Our National Pastime Is Too Brutal
Football uses its combatants like Kleenex, then discards them with hardly a thought.