John Stossel

Donating to charity? I give to charities that help people escape dependence. But capitalism and "greedy" innovators do still more for the world:

“Stupid, uninformed, ignoramuses.” That’s how Megyn Kelly now the describes the media that “drive our national discussion.” In my new video, she calls out her old bosses.

“Green” activists say oil “is going to take everything we know and love!” But their “zero emission” vision is NONSENSE! “It’s almost infantile,” says physicist Mark Mills, “it’s distressing because it’s so silly.” Part 2 of our series: Electric Cars: Inconvenient Facts.

Students today are kept away from words and ideas they may find disturbing. "The Silencing” author, Kirsten Powers, says colleges are “ground zero” in the fight for free speech, but George Mason Professor Jeremy Mayer says complaints about censorship are right wing paranoia. Powers also argues that leftists have gone from opposing censorship to supporting it. They even attack their own for stepping outside left-wing orthodoxy; people who say the wrong thing lose jobs. A Stossel Classic from 2015.

Protectionism at play? Politicians call food trucks "unfair competition" for restaurants—smother them with regulations.

Here’s my FULL interview with Adam Carolla, who talks about: Whether men are funnier than women. Being called a sexist for criticizing AOC. Why overregulation in California is “insane.” And friends like Howard Stern & Jimmy Kimmel hammering his opinions.

Political campaigns have turned into a technology war. Each campaign tries to out-tech the other. Obama famously won the tech war in 2008 and 2012. Can the GOP catch up? Obama’s former tech guru tells Stossel “if the Republicans haven’t caught up by now, it’s their fault.” In 2016 the Cruz campaign said “we have caught up… and then some!” The media credits a lot of Cruz’s early success with his use of big data. We followed the presidential candidate’s technology operation on the campaign trail. A Stossel Classic from 2016.

Politicians and activists who want all cars to go electric are guilty of magical thinking. Electric car sales are up 66% this year. President Biden says the future is "electric… and there’s no turning back.” California and New York are banning sales of new gas-powered vehicles. We’re told they’ll help us use less oil. But most of what politicians, activists, and electric car sellers say about electric cars is just wrong. In this video, and a second one coming soon, I show you 5 inconvenient facts about electric cars.

Want to know who will probably win the midterms? Ignore the polls, statistical models, and narcissistic “experts” on TV. Believe the people who put their money where theirs mouth are, the bettors: electionbettingodds.com. They get it right more than anyone else:

NASA’s administrator admits, “We have not been good at maintaining schedule... not been good at maintaining costs.” No kidding. Government never is. Thank goodness innovation comes from private companies like Elon Musk's SpaceX:

Did you hear? Netflix paid the Obamas millions to produce shows. Their latest series “The G Word” is astoundingly stupid. President Obama and his sidekick, comedian Adam Conover, push big government propaganda. I debunk it here:

Politicians say “Yes, we can!” and claim that they solve our problems. I say “No THEY can’t!” Politicians are wrong when they say “Yes, we can,” but the fact that government can’t doesn’t mean that we can’t. Free people accomplish wonderful things. While government wastes billions on boondoggles like Solyndra, X-prize founder Peter Diamandis explains how private investors have created cars that get 100mpg, space ships, and much faster ways to clean up oil spills, all without charging taxpayers a penny. Without big government, life can be great. A Classic Stossel from 2012

Many “professionally trained” journalists are biased nitwits. Meanwhile Tim Pool didn’t even finish high school…. and he’s built a massive independent network with millions of followers. “Journalism today is...utter garbage,” he tells me. My full interview with Pool is here:

How did liberals go from being the anti-censorship group to the pro-censorship group? A Classic Stossel from 2015. "The Silencing” author, Kirsten Powers, says "Liberals have typically believed in free speech debate and dissent... But now, it's I'm offended. They don't want to hear ideas that they disagree with and they don't want other people to hear ideas that they disagree with."

For days, I’ve heard hurricanes are getting worse because of climate change. “No, they aren’t!” a climatologist tells me. Here’s evidence: #HurricaneiIan #Ian

Socialism has become cool in America, under the nice name "democratic socialism." Gloria Álvarez ‏knows better, because she's from Latin America and studied socialism there. She says: watch out! Socialism has a clear track record of wrecking every country that implements it.

Dozens of states expanded school choice in the last two years, allowing more students to leave government-run schools. But David Walrod, the president of a teachers' union in Fairfax, Virginia, says the new school choice programs are harmful. We debate.

Politicians are good at making promises that have unintended consequences. They used the tax code to try to subsidize farming and livestock. But this has lead to an explosion of ALPACA farmers! (Just what this country needs… ) A Classic Stossel from 2010.

“If AOC were fat and in her 60s, no one would listen to her,” says Adam Carolla. Comments like that cause controversy. But Corolla won’t apologize. “Apologizing just leads to more apologizing,” he tells me.

Even as Venezuelans starve, Senator Rand Paul notes that socialism has gained ground in the United States. That's why he wrote "The Case Against Socialism." The chapter on Venezuelan socialism is titled, "Because Eating Your Pets is Overrated.” "You would think that ... when your economy gets to the point where people are eating their pets, people might have second thoughts about what economic system they’ve chosen,” Senator Paul tells me.

My newest interview is with…. GASP!…. a sex worker. Her name is Aella, and her career path is surprising. She’s made a lot of money, performing for men online, and being an escort. But she's also an outspoken libertarian. “I just knew that freedom was really important,” she tells me. Now she’s paid to do research. Her surveys are unconventional, including something she calls a “rape spectrum." Usually I do 5 minute videos. But our wide-ranging conversation deserved more time.

Green governments are cracking down on chemical fertilizer. "It's totally insane!" says Michael Shellenberger. Such green dogma would bring mass starvation:

Most of education in America is a mess. The cost has skyrocketed, but performance is flat. Why? One big reason is that the government monopoly—Stossel calls it the “BLOB”— makes it nearly impossible to fire a bad teacher. Stossel confronts union leaders, like DC union boss Nathan Saunders, who opposes judging teachers by student test results. “I know my kids are learning when I look in their eyes,” says Saunders. New Jersey union leader Joseph Del Grosso opposes charter schools: “Over my dead body, they’re gonna come here.” When Saunders and Del Grosso were kids, they attended private schools, but now they oppose vouchers. This is a common phenomenon amongst members of the BLOB: choice for ME, but not for THEE. A Stossel Classic from 2012

#TheBabylonBee is STILL banned from Twitter. Twitter’s bosses don't want you to hear them. But you should give their humor a try—they now get more views than the Onion. Here’s my new FULL video about the Bee:

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is another lesson in why it is bad for U.S. and Europe to move away from clean nuclear power. The renewable replacements, solar and wind, can’t fill the void, so we become more dependent of fuel from places like Russia. Nuclear power is green, safe, and relatively cheap if government allows it.