There are good reasons to be concerned that we are losing access to information with which to evaluate opposing sides of health issues. Google’s search engine algorithm has essentially ended traffic to many websites that question the medical orthodoxy.

"For those of you who have not experienced socialism, the term 'democratic socialism' might seem innocent or perhaps even idealistic. As someone who has lived under it, for me, socialism is oppression, occupation, mass murder, severe material deprivation, and complete lack of freedom."

Women played a critical role in the abolition movement, a fact often overlooked. On many matters, female abolitionists spoke with a moral authority that most men couldn’t quite muster.

On Sunday, science writer Neil deGrasse Tyson tweeted statistics about mass shootings and other causes of death. He says, "Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data." Various people have expressed their upset at Tyson, but many of the people who are upset at him are proving his point.

For many children, compulsory education and authority figures tend to inadvertently turn off their sense of curiosity and wonder about the world. Additionally, assigned districts can limit school choice for many parents and mandatory curricula can put unnecessary stress on educators. Are there solutions to these problems within the current framework? Is there any evidence to support changing the way we approach schooling to benefit children, parents, and teachers? Where did all these mandates originate? Join Antony Davies, James Harrigan, and special guest Kerry McDonald, author of Unschooled, as they discuss the public school system and more on this week’s episode of Words & Numbers.

When a business makes a profit, who deserves the excess? Is it fair that the owner gets all the profits? Should the profits be shared equally among workers and owners alike?