John Stossel

Politicians express "admiration" for dictatorships. (Yes, really.) It's dictator envy! Johan Norberg sets them straight:

The Southern Poverty Law Center claims it protects us from"hate groups." But it's a scam... a money grabbing slander machine:

Politicians promised that Title IX would end discrimination of women in sports, but instead it has taken sports away from both men AND women. A Stossel Classic from 2010. Note: After this piece first aired, supporters of Cal athletics raised enough money to convince Cal to re-instate the 5 teams they planned to cut. Unfortunately student athletes at many other schools have not been as fortunate.

California is the Biden Administration’s role model for America. What are they thinking? The state loses 170,000 people every year. "People are just emptying out of California!” says Kristin Tate, who reports on why so many abandon the state: "exorbitant tax rates, the high crime rates, the failing public school systems, the exorbitant cost of living.”

The #SupremeCourt just ruled that states can ban #abortion. But should they? Here's my new video about that--Abortion: The Liberty Debate. @avensobrien and @MereLiberty debate, and I give my take.

Politicians promise to help everyone go to college. But they just make college more EXPENSIVE. Did you know that the University of Missouri is proud to have a “leisure resort” on campus? Naomi Riley, author of The Faculty Lounges: And Other Reasons Why You Won't Get the College Education You Pay For, explains how government aid led to massive tuition hikes. A Stossel Classic from 2012.

Stop! You need a license for that! Bottleneckers screw us in the name of “protecting” us.

Edward Snowden tries to convince me to worry more about privacy. "They're trying to shape your behavior!" he warns. I rudely say: "Americans by and large don't care, and I mostly don't care. I figure that teenage boy across the street could be picking up the stuff I send. The cork's out of the bottle. What difference does it make?" Snowden has good answers.

Despite record high gas prices, environmentalists celebrate shutting down something that could have helped, the Keystone SL pipeline. A Classic Stossel from 2015. America is blessed with abundant resources and cursed with boneheaded regulators. Environmentalists collude with the EPA to block economic progress. EPA bureaucrats thousands of miles away shut down a mine in Alaska to save fish two hundred miles downstream and fired hundreds of workers in the process. Now, after a decade of delays, environmentalists have also shut down the Keystone SL pipeline.

The baby formula shortage is worse than you think. It’s a perfect storm of moronic politicians… destructive regulation… and biased media. Here is the truth:

Rhinos were being poached to extinction in Africa. Then South Africa legalized selling rhino horns. Poaching fell. Huh? Why? This 5 minute video explains:

The "woke" mindset “hurts black people," says John McWhorter. How could it do that? By getting people to think of themselves as victims:

Plan to fly this summer? Good luck! There will be extra delays because, thanks to stupid government regulations, there’s a pilot shortage. “The unions like it,” one pilot tells me. I’ll show you why.

RJ Brunner started a moving company. People loved his service and his company grew…. until state regulators told him to stop. He needed a "Certificate of Necessity and Convenience." Basically he needed to prove his business was NEEDED and wouldn't hurt existing businesses. And the existing businesses had a virtual veto over new competition. A Stossel Classic from 2013

Gas prices break records. “The reason,” President Biden says: “Putin’s war.” Give me a break. He can’t blame everything on Putin. Most of the gas price increase came BEFORE the war:

Cumbersome FDA regulations delay promising new drugs. The pandemic got regulators to speed things up, but approval still takes a LONG time. A promising protein my brother Tom discovered won't be available for years:

I expect politicians to be somewhat hypocritical. But when #Covid hit, they set new lows. Here are some of the worst:

“Natural” food activists say: Stop eating genetically-modified foods! They're wrong. GMO foods are safe. They don’t, as claimed, “cause cancer.” Over the last couple decades, cancer is down and lifespans are up.

Exciting things are happening in education suddenly. In some places, charter schools bucked the unions, and got results. Inner-city kids do well on benchmark tests. I report on the innovations at the Success Charter Network and Harlem Village Academy in New York, and at the American Indian Public Charter School in Oakland, California. “Let’s destroy the system… create a system that serves kids,” says charter school director Deborah Kenny. Hurricane Katrina made that experiment possible by destroying much of New Orleans. Now 70% of New Orleans students attend charters, and they’re learning more. A Classic Stossel from 2011

Did you know you could miss one tax payment and your local government may take your home? Tawanda Hall was slightly behind on her property taxes. She was on a payment plan, but short $900. So the government took her whole $308,000 home. Hall says she tried to pay, but, “They didn’t want our money… They wanted our house." Now they’ve got it, and the town won’t give her the $286,000 difference back. That’s just wrong.

Technology is changing our world! Military robots will replace soldiers. Driverless cars will put taxi and truck drivers out of work. John Stossel says don't worry. A Stossel Classic from 2016.

Need glasses? Going to an optometrist can be a pain and waste the better part of a day. So a company, Opternative, invented an at-home test. It's cheaper and more convenient than traditional eye tests. You just need a cell phone and a computer. But the Bottleneckers want that banned.

“There may be no alternative, but to cancel Christmas!” threatens Santa in a Greenpeace video on Global Warming. Environmentalists in Hollywood tell our kids: global warming will kill you! Soon! But instead, people keep innovating and the doom… doesn't happen. Hollywood and the media push green propaganda. Have we been “greenwashed?" A Stossel Classic from 2015.

In a bookstore’s kid's section, "There's probably 27 different books about former Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg.. a ton about Kamala Harris…“ Hillary Clinton, Justice Sotomayor, AOC, etc… but Bethany Mandel couldn’t find ANY on conservatives. So she's fighting back! Here’s how:

Increasingly, government tells us what we can and can’t eat -- bans on trans-fat, happy meals, “raw” foods. California officials raided a raw food club, and arrested clerks for selling unpasteurized milk. Farmer Joel Salatin, author of “Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal,” explains why Americans DON’T have the freedom to choose the food they eat. A Classic Stossel from 2012.