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In the words of his son Jonathan, \"Dad felt an obligation to others . . . there were people's lives that he needed to help and what better way than to be their voice\" (personal conversation), Axelrod's metier resulted in exponential improvements in public health in New York State. Looking at prevalence and trends, he recognized that tackling the epidemic required addressing maternal to child transmission and spread among incarcerated, intravenous drug users and the homeless. Axelrod believed in community engagement, an approach favored today as our state confronts disparities in maternal mortality, legalization of marijuana, and revitalization of Brooklyn.

Just three Novembers ago, few would have predicted that the expression \"Medicare for All\" would be ringing so passionately today in the national political arena. Donald Trump's slender victory and the returning Republican congressional majorities, the most conservative in modern history, suggested that repealing the Affordable Care Act-along with largely dismantling Medicaid -would be the defining health care policy issue of the current era. Yet here we are, after that failed effort pushing hard to the political Right while the progressive Democratic presidential contenders are stumbling over one another to proclaim their respective fealty to Medicare for All on the Left. Is the United States truly on the cusp of making a historic leap toward universal health coverage and system transformation? This AJPH special section on the history and contexts of single-payer health caretives in in both Washington, DC, and the states- authored by a set of preeminent figures in the field-could not be better timed or more constructive.

To the surprise of many, the border wall also became the central issue in the 2016 U.S. presidential campaign. For Donald Trump’s supporters, the wall stood in for many complex issues connected to borders: the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs to China, the scourge of cartel-smuggled drugs, the fear of cultural changes brought by migration, and the threat of terrorists carrying out an attack. The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (2015) reports that 95 percent of drugs enter the U.S. through ports of entry in containers, which would be unaffected by a wall.

On this edition of Meet the Press: Senator Gary Hart discusses his views on national security and foreign policy.