Andrew G. Biggs has joined the American Enterprise Institute as a resident scholar.

Steps needed to slow the growth rates of Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid at a time when our politics are moving in exactly the opposite direction.

Although Social Security was intended to reduce uncertainty in people"s lives, there is a great deal of uncertainty about the level of benefits and taxes in the future.

Without reform, Social Security is headed for disaster, and the only way to save the system will be to cut benefits or raise taxes.

Norman Podhoretz, senior fellow, Hudson Institute, and editor of Commentary from 1960 to 1995, delivered the fifth in AEI's 1995-1996 Bradley Lecture Series on January 26, 1996.

We need to find a better way to tap into the insights and expertise of the best of the former lawmakers.

Pat Moyinihan was without a doubt, as Michael Barone once said, the nation's best thinker among politicians since Lincoln and its best politician among thinkers since Jefferson.