Excerpt: Social Security has survived another year. In at least one important policy area, good sense has triumphed over ideology. We have not shredded the safety net in a celebration of rugged individualism. We have not promised to transfer resources from the poor to the rich, from women to men, from the old to the young. In a curiously American drama, 'liberal' commitment to tried and true policy has beaten back the 'conservative' drive for radical change. We can only hope that this liberal caution will mark the next president's policy[.]

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