John D. Rockefeller is often remembered as the world’s first billionaire, but his story goes far beyond just amassing wealth ...

A promising path to fighting COVID and other coronaviruses may have been based on a serious mistake. Scientists had zeroed in ...

The COVID pandemic illustrated how urgently we need antiviral medications capable of treating coronavirus infections.

Modern medicine as we know it wasn’t shaped by doctors alone—it was engineered by John D. Rockefeller. In the early 20th century, Rockefeller and his oil empire helped transform medicine into ...

In 2004, then-Governor George Pataki signed the Drug Law Reform Act into law, replacing Rockefeller's iron-fisted approach to drug use and sale with a more moderate determinate system that put a ...

The Rockefeller drug laws-- now 28 years old-- are amongst the toughest in the country. They failed to prevent New York City from becoming the epicenter of the American crack epidemic in the early ...

Mandatory minimum sentences, widely associated with the Rockefeller Drug Laws in New York, helped launch the mass incarceration era of the 1970s and 80s. While specific Rockefeller laws have been ...

President George Edgar Vincent of the Rockefeller Foundation last week published a preliminary statement of what the Foundation accomplished last year. Many a public health official many an ...

Since secular governance and its justice system are imperfect human institutions at all three branches, each must be ever mindful to keep striving for the ideal of fair, equal and proportionate ...

Rockefeller proposed the laws in his 1973 State of the State address while expressing frustration that despite the state spending over $1 billion on drug treatment and education, “We have ...