John Stossel

The media often scare us about 3D-printed guns. "Anyone can print it, no background checks, mental illness not a factor, virtually undetectable," a CNN anchor warns. Politicians scare us too. It's "a direct threat to our national security," former Senator Bill Nelson claimed last summer. But are they? Josh Blackman says posting the 3D-gun blueprints is protected by the First Amendment, since the blueprints are a form of speech.

Have you been "red-pilled?" That means learning that conventional wisdom is wrong. Candace Owens says she gives out "red pills" to millions of people:

Do you feel free to speak your mind? Watch out! Today people get fired for that, especially in the media. The NY Times, NBC, Philly Inquirer, and others have caved to activists. Why? New tactics activists learned at college, Robby Soave tells me:

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.

Activists demand government force companies to offer paid family leave. But it turns out that mandated leave hurts both business and women. Patrice Lee Onwuka, with the Independent Women’s Forum explains:

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!

Exciting things are happening in education. In some places, charter schools bucked the unions, and got results. Hurricane Katrina made that experiment possible by destroying much of New Orleans. Now most New Orleans students attend charters, and they’re learning more. A Classic Stossel from 2011.

Many in the media say there’s a conservative war on science. Is this true? No, says John Tierney, Contributing Editor at the Manhattan Institute’s City Journal. Tierney says “the real war on science is the one from the left.”

Bernie Sanders and others on the left want higher taxes on "millionaires and billionaires." Would that be a good idea? Most rich people became prosperous by creating wealth. Jim Caruso took over a bankrupt brewery and turned it around by inventing creative craft beers. He now employs more than 100 people. The company he runs, Flying Dog Brewery, is worth millions. Caruso had a good answer when I asked him about the “unfairness” of some Americans having so much more money than others. The top fraction of earners does now own almost half America's assets. Caruso pointed out that Steve Jobs was worth $10 billion when he died, but since Apple sold more than 2 billion devices, Jobs collected just $5 per device. "I think Steve might have been underpaid here," he says. Most on the left don't see it that way. "The feeling tends to be that somebody like Steve Jobs took something away from everybody else," Caruso says. "But... what did Steve Jobs take? He had this idea, wouldn't it be great to have a thousand songs in your pocket... one of the most massively important tools for productivity and communication in life.”

So many myths about capitalism! In this video, we debunk 4 more myths. Economist Dan Mitchell helps me set the record straight on how: Even without government's safety rules, free markets make us safer. “Robber barons” neither robbed, nor were barons. Automation won’t take away everyone’s jobs. Capitalism is the system that leaves the most people free to make their OWN choices.

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.

Leftist media say Chris Rufo “invented the conflict over critical race theory.” Is that true? “I discovered it,” Rufo tells me. This is our FULL interview:

Where would you rank the United States in global freedom? 1st? 10th? Try…25th! “Smothering government” is to blame says Derrick Morgan. The country ranked the most free? I’ll show you here:

Politicians and activists tell how “renewable" energy will save us from the climate “crisis.” They don’t tell us about the real costs of green power. My new video covers a documentary series called, “Juice: Politics, Power and the Grid.” It reveals how although renewables sound green, they have lots of problems. California promises to get 50% of their electricity from renewable sources. Now they deal with blackouts, rationing, and prices that increased 3x faster than in the rest of the US. You can watch the full documentary at JuiceTheSeries.com.

"You really got screwed!" I tell accused traitor Edward Snowden. Government officials who misled Americans are sitting pretty. James Clapper lied to Congress, yet he wasn't even fired. Now he works for CNN. But Snowden, for exposing the truth, is in exile. Here’s his story:

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:

It’s #schoolchoiceweek. Choice is good, not only in WHERE you go to school, but when it comes to WHAT you learn. I started a charity, Stossel in the Classsroom, offering teachers free videos about things like capitalism. Students tell me the videos changed their lives:

Professor John McWhorter, author of "Woke Racism," argues that condescending leftist ideology hurts black people. I learned a lot from this full, half-hour interview with Columbia linguist John McWhorter.

News reports often give the impression that humans have wrecked the earth, the middle class is disappearing, and the world is getting more dangerous. This negativity comes from the way humans are wired by evolution, says Reason Magazine Editor in Chief Katherine Mangu-Ward. But our instincts are wrong, she says. We needn't be so scared.

I used to be a progressive big-government leftist. So did @RubinReport. Now he says progressives are “totalitarian in nature." What made him change? Here’s my full interview.

4 years ago politicians were quick to use #Covid as an excuse to declare some Americans “essential,” and most others, not. Interesting how often “essential” workers turned out to be ones who paid lobbyists. Mike Rowe reminded us who really is essential:

The self-driving car is here! It REALLY works. Nobody even has to sit in the front seat. My executive producer, @maximlott, went to San Francisco & Phoenix to report:

Even as thousands die from Covid, the FDA is slow to approve tests, and promising new medicines. At the same time, government pompously praises itself! @mfcannon of @CatoInstitute shows how government delays our access to Covid treatments.

There’s lots of pressure on kids these days. Study, achieve, win! So now there’s a counter movement: “Every kid’s a winner.” It sounds nice… but some people call this "the wussification of America." A stossel Classic from 2014.

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