“Quarantine,” as Dr. David F. Musto, a Yale University drug policy historian, noted in his 1986 article “Quarantine and the Problem of AIDS,” comes from the Italian word for “forty days.” That’s the arbitrary length of time ships coming from supposedly contagious areas used to be held at a distance from port to prevent disease from spreading to the city’s population. It’s an old idea, used back then to evoke a feeling of safety from diseases like leprosy, yellow fever, and cholera. On Friday, Australian Prime Minister John Howard declared it a fit idea for AIDS...

From the ashes of terror and destructions, the architects and builders involved with renovating Ground Zero hope to create greatness.

This week at my high school, the group of students called SADD, or Students Against Destructive Decisions (along with the help of several teachers, of course), put on a day-long program just before spring break.

How difficult is it to feel safe when fundamentalism is on the rise so close to home?

Remember how they used to say "If you call yourself a punk, you're a poser. And if you call yourself a poser, then you're a punk"? Well, it's not the same for wealthy politicians.

Students at a small Georgia high school will dance together for the first time.

Ordinary Moroccans are being pushed out of their communities to make room for the European invasion.

This Easter, among overflowing baskets of mashmallow chickens, chocolate bunnies, and Jelly Bellys, lay the bittersweet lamentations of the Pope. 

Speaking Sunday to tens of thousands of faithful at St. Peter’s Square...