EDWARDS ON AIDS. Proving once again that there’s no grassroots progressive interest group John Edwards can’t woo, he became today the first presidential candidate to respond to 100 HIV/AIDS advocacy organizations who have sounded “A Call to Action” for a “National AIDS Strategy.” His proposal is here, and although parts of it are, of course, a repackaging of his universal health care plan, he hits all the right notes: Strengthening research efforts; focusing on the race, class, and gender disparities that affect who’s infected; bringing drug costs down in the developing world; and focusing on women’s rights and education as powerful antidotes.

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.