John Stossel

Are you pregnant? There’s a new law for you! The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. “Sounds like a great thing on the surface,” says CATO Institute’s Vanessa Calder. But Calder—who is pregnant—is AFRAID of the new law. Here’s why:

The #Oscars are Sunday. Hollywood will give awards ­for the “best” performances. But they leave out a big category: political actors. Pols deceive people just as much actors, so their performances deserve recognition. That’s why I created the Stosscars! Here's the 2018 edition:

I like that Gov Jared Polis talks about individual freedom. But I learned from our FULL interview…he’s no libertarian. We discuss the good—and I push back back on the bad—here:

Parts of America still impose ridiculous mask mandates on kids and vaccinated people, even outdoors. Give me a break. Covid is here to stay. It's not going away. We must learn to live with it:

Campus censorship was so bad for libertarian Rikki Schlott that she left her college. “I was afraid to have Thomas Sowell books on my bookshelf,” she says. But now she calls cancel culture, “tyranny of the minority.” She says it’s time for the silent majority to fight back.

Today is #TaxDay. But calling any single day “Tax Day” is misleading. The income tax is LESS THAN HALF of what most of us pay the government. Kristin Tate has been researching that:

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.

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.

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.

"Libertad! scream Cubans. LIBERTY! Then media report that the Cuban protests are over "shortages of food and vaccines!” They go out of their way to avoid criticizing any form of socialism. #CubaLibre

Can America assimilate 100,000 refugees from Ukraine? Should we? Here’s my new new video about that:

Bjorn Lomborg says poor people have bigger problems than climate change. His ideas are common sense. Yet he's called “the devil incarnate.” Someone once smashed a pie in his face. “I get why people get upset,” Lomborg tells me. I don’t get it!

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

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:

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.

Holiday season is here. To help your friends or family learn about liberty, why not give them a book? Here are some ideas.

Angry mobs have threatened people throughout history. But now there’s a new kind: online mobs. Repeatedly outraged, and vicious--their goal is to get people fired. They are good at it. A tax specialist lost her job for saying being female is a biological fact. When Harry Potter author JK Rowling defended her, tweeting, “Force women out of their jobs for stating sex is real?” the mob came for Rowling. They called her transphobic, said her tweet was “cruel and inaccurate.” Some staff at her publisher refused to work on her upcoming book. But Rowling is the rare person popular enough to be able to resist the mob. Her publisher stood up for her saying, “freedom of speech is the cornerstone of publishing.” That’s how all these cases should be handled. “We just have to speak up,” says Soave. That can be hard in the current “cancel culture.” But those of us who can speak up, should.

Andrew Yang says, "running for president requires traits that make you a terrible leader." That’s an odd statement from a presidential candidate. Although it’s true. Yang has some fresh ideas. Some bad ones, too. We talk about his new political party, and book, both called, "Forward."

A silver lining to the Covid pandemic: more families tried HOMESCHOOLING to get away from mask mandates and indoctrination. Today, millions homeschool. It's 50% more common than before the pandemic. I covered the trend when it started:

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.

“Experts" constantly over-predict doom! From #COVID19, to Climate Change, to resource depletion, the models were too alarmist. Matt Ridley explains here:

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.

Few things are as destructive as Socialism, Communism, Fascism... A look at the Deadly-isms

AI eliminated thousands of jobs last year. That’s what innovation has always done. Most Americans once worked on farms; today, only 1% do. That was a good thing, because people found other, better, less dangerous jobs. This will happen again because of AI.

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.