Bill Gates: America Is Better Than It’s Ever Been

Bill Gates certainly isn’t the only rich philanthropist, but he has poured himself into the work in a way that others haven’t. After he stepped back from the day-to-day operations at Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) (though he is still involved with the company he founded), Gates devoted himself to running the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which tackles everything from child mortality rates to designing better condoms.

He’s spent enough time working on the issues facing the most impoverished nations on earth, including Yemen and Somalia, that he has a realistic sense of the...