Lots of people want to see more “hope” and less “doom” about climate change. But a new facility to suck carbon out of the air shows why it’s more complicated than that.

A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.

Lindsey Graham and other conservatives are trying to turn the Covid controversy du jour into the new Russiagate.

For all the talk of the GOP’s new working-class focus, it’s as eager as ever to serve the interests of plutocrats at the expense of everyone else.

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.

Innovation can be extremely unequal.

A practical blueprint for reform in the wake of the coronavirus shutdown

As millions brace for the coming recession, the wealthiest people in the world are only getting richer. That’s a crisis of another kind.

Tech was meant to help us transcend our most intractable problems. What went wrong?

They're an easily faked way to score international points.

Bill Gates is here to change the world—will he make money doing it?

A Chinese dissident shows us how to dream big

Tesla CEO Elon Musk is wrong to oppose government subsidies. After all, he benefitted from them.