Gates was a lovable nerd who was out to save the world. Now, he’s a tech supervillain who wants to protect profits over public health.

Rather than choose sides in this P.R. war of plutocrat divorcés, we should scrutinize whether billionaire philanthropy really works.

There’s no great conspiracy at play in the crises unfolding around the philanthropist and the congressman—just the banal myopias of power.

Through his hallowed foundation, the world’s de facto public health czar has been a stalwart defender of monopoly medicine.