John Stossel

When Philly passed a big soda tax, politicians said it'd fund pre-K. But MOST of it didn’t. Philadelphians I interviewed on the street were right to be skeptical:

After a recent storm, a ship full of fuel was BANNED from delivering that fuel to suffering Americans. It happened because of a stupid law with a stupid name.

Do mandatory minimums work? Prosecutors love them because they give them more power to plea bargain with suspects. But they tie judges’ hands and result in needlessly harsh sentences. A Stossel Classic from 2014.

We’ve heard about the top secret documents found at Trump and Biden’s homes. It's a "national security crisis,” say the media. Nonsense. It’s the usual media hysteria. Here is why most government “secrets” are not what you think.

The cost of college has skyrocketed. Princeton cost me $2K a year. Now they charge $60K! College costs have risen 4x the rate of inflation. That's because government throws your money at colleges, says Inez Stepman. Yale has a $31B endowment. Why give them MORE money?

The US Gov't had ordered betting market PredictIt to shut sdown this week. It's insane! PredictIt is useful. A great predictor of future events. Do regulators just not like betting? They won’t even say. Fortunately, a court says PredictIt can continue operating until the court rules.

Want to start a business? Imagine having to get your competitors’ permission first. In 35 states, laws block certainties of new businesses from operating unless they get their competitor’s permission. One such law prevents Phillip Truesdell from operating ambulances in Kentucky. “You’re going to tell me that I’m not fit to work in your town?!” he asks.

I knew Mike Pompeo wouldn’t tell me if he’s running for president. So in our FULL interview, I ask what he’d actually DO as president... about defense, spying, immigration, the drug war and more. His answers are often a surprise:

In Britain, a local highway was damaged by heavy rains. When government said it would take a year to repair it, entrepreneur Mike Watts built a “private road” in just 12 days. The road cost him about $250,000 to build. He put his house up as collateral. He charges $3 to cross, less for locals. A Classic Stossel from 2015.

“Randi Weingarten is the most dangerous person in the world,” Mike Pompeo tells me. Really? More than Putin? Xi Jinping? Kim Jong Un? Pompeo backs up his accusation.

Government-run schools often fail kids. In Philadelphia, 29,000 students apply to escape to a charter school. But only 7,000 get in, largely because the education/politician establishment won’t allow enough new charters to open:

The world is about to end! It must be true. I saw it on 60 Minutes. Species are dying off! Whether it’s overpopulation… or climate change… the doomsayers keep getting it wrong. "Life is getting better,” explains Marian Tupy from HumanProgress.Org.

Happy National School Choice Week! Look at who sent their kids to private schools: Nancy Pelosi, Hillary Clinton, Al Gore … Yet all these politicians who sent their kids to private school, oppose school choice for regular people. A Stossel Classic from 2012

Plastic recycling is a DIRTY LIE. So why do so many green activists push it? “I think they get a charge out of telling people what to do,” John Tierney tells me. More than ever…recycling is garbage.

Welfare is supposed to be for poor people -- but BILLIONS go to rich people (bailouts, subsidies, taxpayer-funded special grants…) “STOP giving [taxpayer] money to rich people... Just stop!" Lisa Conyers, the author of "Welfare for the Rich", tells me:

New York's governor did an "amazing job" handling Covid. Florida's governor acted "irresponsibly." That what's the media said. What REALLY happened? Adjusted for age, Florida had FEWER deaths than New York. Lessons from the pandemic:

The NBA, greedy and hypocritical, grovels before China. Enes Freedom is the ONLY player willing to call them out. He says the NBA has “no morals." In our extended interview, he doesn’t hold back… about LeBron James, John Cena, the NBA, Nike, or anyone else.

Leftists encourage people to see themselves victims and demand their “fair" share. Psychologist Jordan Peterson reminds people that fulfillment comes from RESPONSIBILITY. Millions listen:

How much do you REALLY know about Megyn Kelly? My FULL interview covers her life and career. The truth about Fox. The truth about NBC. The truth about Trump. And what drove her out of NY. Here it is:

For most of human history, tyrants ruled. They enslaved people, confiscated property, waged endless war. Only a few hundred years ago, free markets emerged. David Boaz explains what that changed.

Have you seen what’s happened to comic books? They’ve gone stupidly woke! DC and Marvel once dominated, but now they've fallen out of the Top 20! They push gay Superman. Black Batman. Iron Man as a Black teenage girl. Why? Eric July explains.

I once was a big-government leftist. So was Dave Rubin. Here he tells me what he walked away from the left and became a classical liberal:

Feeling the "Christmas cheer" yet? Researchers find that certain activities consistently make people happy -- or not so happy. Psychology professor Sonja Lyubomirsky explains what they are:

One of the things that’s great about America is its entrepreneurial spirit. America is a good place to do business. More than almost any other nation, America both encourages and rewards creativity, risk-taking, and the entrepreneurial spirit. In this video, I start my own “Stossel Store." The business is something of a failure, which is also part of what’s great about America: you can try here and fail and still try again. A Classic Stossel from 2010.

Maj Toure wants to arm more people in America. “Criminals should be deathly afraid,” he tells me. We know about "Black Lives Matter." But there’s another group called "Black Guns Matter," started by Toure. He carries a gun with him everywhere he goes, and he encourages others to do the same.