Right now, at the lobby gallery of the Conde Nast building is an exhibit with works of art for auction curated with the theme, "See the Children Through the Trees." The works of art are focused on trees; the theme reflects how AIDS orphans and other parentless children in New...

Right now, at the lobby gallery of the Condé Nast Building is an exhibit with works of art for auction curated with the theme "See the Children Through the Trees." The works of art are focused on trees; the theme reflects how AIDS orphans and other parentless children in New...

It was during the presidential campaign that a distracted nation saw the rise of a new interest -- or, more precisely -- self-interest group. For a force which commanded so much attention, it was, rather oddly, unnamed, perhaps preferring it that way since the only name that comes to mind...

In June, 1989, when Tianamen Square struck, I was presenting the first study and projections of American AIDS orphans at that year's International AIDS Conference, which, attended by some 10,000 people, was held in Montreal. All told, it was an endlessly depressing occasion, as we rushed from report and presentation...

For the United States, health reform without a clear plan to mobilize community groups nationwide to put proven prevention programs right in place where they are most needed, will not be "reform", but a continuing disaster in which people are simply more equal in being able to obtain expensive...

"That just got by us." Former President Bill Clinton at the 2006 World AIDS Conference on being asked why the United States government had never established ongoing programs for its own AIDS orphans

America has the most AIDS orphans in the Western world, but you'd hardly know....

Two judges in Western Pennsylvania, recently sentenced to seven years in prison for purposely inflating the sentences of juvenile offenders to benefit the income and profits of privately run "youth detention" centers, draw our attention to the over-riding economic impulse for the vast criminalization of American youth.

The...

As we approach some form of national health insurance, a little noticed battle in New York contains many messages for the future. New York State is the center of the nation's massive medical industry. Its medical schools are the most concentrated training ground for the nation's doctors. Its Medicaid...

Our Frankenstein stimulus plan, hodge podged and patched---and near passage--- leaves much to ponder. It is not all wrong. Extending unemployment benefits, increasing food stamps and so forth are almost certainly necessary at this time. Some of the infrastructure investments make sense.

The core and glaring problem is...

The human infrastructure of the United States is so shattered that some 35% of officially poor, middle-aged adults have three or more chronic conditions. Ill health is not just ill health anymore; it's a major cause of poverty, as disability rates soar. Yet, so far, plans for the massive "infrastructure"...