July 1998

Articles

• Nine Misconceptions About Social Security

  To take a voguish example: Privatize Social Security? Any money saved would be eaten up in Wall Street transaction costs, including million-dollar salaries

  Dean Baker

• The Danger of Space Junk

  In a place without landfills, what goes up had better come down

  Steve Olson

• Travels Into America's Future (Part I)

  A correspondent who has long experience reporting from dimly understood regions of the world reports from his dimly understood native land, and his excursions expose the borderless forces that are pushing America into its next life. Herewith a portion of his travelogue, focusing on the Southwest.

  Robert D. Kaplan

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