The Lowdown on High-Risk Pools

A harbinger of things to come?

By Trudy Lieberman   Jan 4, 2011 at 12:49 PM

It was good to see Amy Goldstein’s fine piece on high-risk insurance pools in The Washington Post. It’s an example... More

Best of 2010: Trudy Lieberman

Lieberman picks her top stories from 2010

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 31, 2010 at 11:37 AM

Social Security in the Heartland series: All year the media ignored how “fixes” to Social Security pushed by political elites... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Nick Quealy-Gainer

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 22, 2010 at 01:25 PM

This is the ninth and final installment in a series of posts that discusses how possible changes in Social Security... More

Social Security in Perspective, Part III

A conversation with William Greider

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 21, 2010 at 09:11 AM

Proposals to change the Social Security system have taken shape, and could foreshadow long-lasting effects on the program. Many of... More

Social Security Under Attack

What the press had to say

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 20, 2010 at 12:34 PM

When the president signed the tax bill Friday, a year’s worth of efforts aimed at modifying Social Security came to... More

What We Should Have Known All Along about Health Reform

Much handwringing about health care what-ifs

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 16, 2010 at 01:53 PM

This week’s coverage of the Virginia court decision declaring health reform’s individual mandate unconstitutional was surprisingly thorough and contextual. What... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Dobbs

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 15, 2010 at 02:39 PM

This is the eighth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More

Other Views of Social Security

The MSM gives some equal time

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 13, 2010 at 10:34 AM

Campaign Desk has been hard of late on some MSM outlets that have presented lopsided views of the Social Security... More

Frank Luntz Rides Again

The wordsmith and the public option

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 10, 2010 at 07:42 AM

Word came Thursday that, last year, Fox News Washington managing editor Bill Sammon had directed his staff to avoid using... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Jude Love

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 8, 2010 at 11:57 AM

This is the seventh in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More

USA Today’s Mixed-Up Message

What exactly did the deficit commission do?

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 6, 2010 at 01:09 PM

On Friday, USA Today reported that the president’s fiscal commission “approved a plan today to cut federal deficits by $3.9... More

NPR Plays Ebenezer Scrooge

Another lopsided Social Security story

By Trudy Lieberman   Dec 2, 2010 at 10:21 AM

It was really hard to tell whether NPR’s Morning Edition segment yesterday—part of the program’s “Ghosts of Debts Past, Present... More

CBS Fumbles Again

A lopsided report on Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 29, 2010 at 01:15 PM

If there were prizes given for the most one-sided, misleading story about Social Security this year, a segment aired on... More

A Curious Omission at the Times

Three Social Security proposals, or two?

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 24, 2010 at 09:44 AM

It was puzzling to see Jackie Calmes’s brief story in The New York Times last week with its provocative headline:... More

Enterprise Reporting at the AP

The retirement age debate finally reaches the public

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 23, 2010 at 10:47 AM

Kudos to the AP for obtaining a report from the government’s watchdog agency, the General Accountability Office (GAO), showing that... More

Social Security in the Heartland: Jim Bean

What Social Security means to real people

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 18, 2010 at 10:57 AM

This is the sixth in a series of posts that discuss how possible changes in Social Security will affect the... More

The Education of Congressman-Elect Andy Harris

What does he know about health insurance?

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 16, 2010 at 12:33 PM

Politico published a rather astonishing story yesterday that should make the constituents of Maryland’s first congressional district scratch their heads... More

Well, What Do You Know, Sherlock?

The media discover Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 12, 2010 at 03:15 PM

Ouch! That was the media’s general reaction yesterday to the ideas in the report issued by the co-chairs of the... More

The Education of Sen. Bennet

NPR passes along misinformation about Social Security

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 11, 2010 at 11:34 AM

The squeaker victory of Colorado’s Sen. Michael Bennet landed him a spot on NPR’s Morning Edition the other day, and... More

Yes, Virginia, it Really Was a Republican Plan

By Trudy Lieberman   Nov 9, 2010 at 11:40 AM

Sunday, the president admitted to Steve Kroft of CBS that the health reform law now known in the vernacular as... More