Bill Gates is the world's richest person, but what kind of power does he have over you? . . .

It's axiomatic: Discrimination accounts for racial inequality in our society, and government action is needed to fix this injustice. . . .

Barry Ritholtz, author of Bailout Nation: How Greed and Easy Money Corrupted Wall Street and Shook the World Economy, talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about the history of bailouts in recent times, beginning with Lockheed and Chrysler in the 1970s and continuing through the current financial crisis. . . .

Some 2,000 years ago, the great Ancient Library in Alexandria, Egypt burnt to the ground, taking with it a vast reservoir of irreplaceable information, subsequently reduced to ashes, lost to history, and leaving the rest of us groping in ignorance at many questions we've ever since scrambled in vain to piece back together. . . .