John Stossel

Chris Rufo makes some people angry. Why? Because he's eliminating woke departments at Florida universities, and exposing woke corporate and government trainings. Media say Rufo has "invented" a crisis about this kind of thing, and that he's pushing a "moral panic." But Rufo has evidence. Watch the video above to see some of it.

What is the difference between a private campground and a government run one? One tries harder:

Green zealots want more socialism and less capitalism. But socialists have “the worst environmental record on the planet,” Tom Palmer tells me. Capitalism often SAVES the environment. It might sound counterintuitive…but here is evidence:

Social Security and Medicare are like a ticking time bomb! Yet most politicians promise not to touch these “entitlements.” Those politicians are either lying or ignorant. Unless we raise retirement age, cut benefits, or privatize, the explosion is coming.

You can't talk about what sets America apart without mentioning our military, which not only protects our rights, but dominates the world as no other military ever has. We are the single greatest superpower in the world, but also historically unique in that we're not interested in conquest. More than that, we go in and rebuild the countries that we’ve fought with. How many countries can say that? A Classic Stossel from 2010.

Governor Ron DeSantis will reportedly get in the presidential race any day. What will he DO if he becomes president? I ask him in our full 45-minute interview.

A new wave of "citizen journalists" often outperform mainstream outlets. Tim Pool is one of those journalists:

Presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy says America’s in a “national identity crisis.” Four symptoms: “woke-ism”… "transgender-ism”… "climate-ism”…“Covid-ism.” Here is our full interview:

Governor Ron DeSantis tells me government digital money would give the Feds power over "all of your transactions.” They'd "impose ideology"… like limits on gun purchases and how much gas you can buy!

Lawyers, and others who have never farmed in their lives, got rich off of taxpayer money – all through a lawsuit against the USDA that was supposed to compensate black farmers for past discrimination. One black farmer tells me, lawyers said "if you had a potted plant… you're a farmer. And if you have a yard and you fertilize it, you're a farmer." That's why 90,000 people got money from the government -- even though the USDA and the Black Farmers' Association say there were only 18,000 black farmers in the country. A Classic Stossel from 2011.

Socialism ALWAYS fails! But people don’t seem to learn. “We always say, no, no, no, this is not going to happen here -- until it does,” says Gloria Alvarez. She's is a Latin American influencer who gives lessons for the U.S.

I hope progressives wake up and realize that socialism caused Venezuela’s destruction. Otherwise tragedies like Venezuela will happen again and again:

Professor Asao Inoue tells other professors how to teach. What he says ends up in your kids' classrooms. Inoue says students should not be graded on standard English because that’s giving in to “white supremacy.” We debate:

Celebrities Leonardo DiCaprio, Katy Perry, and Prince Harry talk a big game about global warming -- but then they fly all over the world to attend parties. Hypocrites!... says Marc Morano.

Fossil fuels are…moral? Yes, says Alex Epstein, because “3 billion people...use less electricity than a typical American refrigerator." To let them to have a modern life, "that's going to depend on fossil fuels.” You won’t hear that in Saturday’s #EarthDay protests.

Has America become a nation of freeloaders? A person panhandling is what we usually picture when we think of freeloading … but in America today, the bigger recipients of handouts is not poor people, it’s corporations. A Stossel Classic from 2011.

Will government censor my new video? Label it “misinformation?" Will Facebook censor it? That’s what’s been happening:

In the name of diversity, many colleges are killing the SAT and ACT. Bad idea! The data are clear: Tests help predict who will succeed and fail in college.

I dodged Covid for three years. Then I caught it. The much vilified free market may have saved my life. Covid was much worse than any flu I’ve had. I really thought I might die. This is what happened.

Some people say, either you’re a maker … or a taker. And today makers and takers are battling for America’s soul. Arthur Brooks says "It’s a battle because we’re deciding on our culture... Because the government is threatening to take us from a maker nation into taker nation status." He points out "60% of Americans take more out of the public finance system than they pay in. They get more in public services than they pay in taxes. " Star Parker was a taker. She lived off welfare for 7 years. She says the welfare bureaucracy encouraged her to be irresponsible… and stay dependent. She says "It's so much easier to take than to make. I never even thought about it. I think that that's one of the greatest tragedies of becoming a taker is you don't think about that somebody else had to make this." A Classic Stossel from 2009.

“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules ... that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today,” says Thomas Sowell. Here’s why I admire him:

If you have a gun, don't fly out of New York with it! Almost every week, New York City arrests someone who brings a gun to the airport -- even when the person has a gun license from their state, notifies authorities about their gun and follows TSA procedures for flying with it. I interviews people who were arrested and confront the District Attorney who prosecutes them.

A Heritage Foundation study found the average major university has 45 DEI personnel. The University of Michigan has 163. Erec Smith used to be a DEI trainer. He calls it "a power grab. If you can keep this race thing going, then you will always have a business in getting rid of racism.”

Politicians promise that increasing the minimum wage would guarantee everyone better pay, but it actually ends up costing people jobs. Minimum wage is my Politicians’ Promises Gone Wrong #9. A Classic Stossel from 2010

America's air traffic control is atrocious! Ancient gov't computers cause mass delays. Why don’t they modernize? "It sounds a lot better to talk about social justice,” Diana Furchtgott-Roth tells me. She would know. She worked for the Dep’t of Transportation.