Development aid has a nice moral ring to it, but does it really achieve what its proponents hope it will?

Social democracy is a group of self-serving individuals who try to maximize their own interests by extracting money without regard for social good. The social-democratic government had made room for a Leviathan that acted as a Robin Hood upside down, taking from the poor and giving to the rich.

Your teachers gave you dates and names of long-dead politicians, and all you know about communism is that your conservative uncle uses it to describe every policy he doesn't like. However, there is an English YouTuber who will open your eyes to the reality of the impact the Soviet Union had on many places in Europe.

The Center for Disease Control, in a report ordered by President Obama in 2012 following the Sandy Hook Massacre, estimated that the number of crimes prevented by guns could be as high as 3 million annually, or some 8,200 every day. And there is plenty more evidence showing that guns keep Americans safe. 

It was famed economist Milton Friedman who laid down the foundational ethic: Businesses should seek to maximize shareholder value only. Does the recent Business Roundtable statement represent a revolutionary shift in the ethic of capitalism?