Socialism Trump Says He Hates Socialism. So Why Is He Acting Like a Socialist? To support chipmaker Intel, the president used our money to buy 433 million shares of Intel stock. That's not a free market. John Stossel | 11.12.2025 12:30 AM
Corruption The Government Shut Down His Dallas Small Business—for Someone Else's Crime "Look at the corruption," says Dale Davenport. "Look how many city councilmen have gone to jail." John Stossel | 11.5.2025 2:30 PM
Free Speech Trump Campaigned on Free Speech. That Isn't How He's Governed. Politicians across the aisle love free speech—until they're in power. John Stossel | 10.22.2025 2:05 PM
Pets States Are Banning Retail Sales of Dogs and Cats. It's Doing More Harm Than Good. "By [activists'] own measurements, these bans aren't successful," says lobbyist Alyssa Miller-Hurley. "What they are successful at is fundraising." John Stossel | 10.8.2025 2:50 PM
Wealth Young People Are Richer Than Boomers Were Despite viral claims, a typical 25-year-old Gen Zer has annual household income that's 50 percent above Baby Boomers'. John Stossel | 10.1.2025 11:30 AM
Children Jonathan Haidt: Kids Should Put Down the Phones and Take More Risks "We're too afraid they'll get abducted," says the author of The Anxious Generation. "That sets kids up to be weaker." John Stossel | 9.17.2025 2:40 PM
Federal land management The Feds Own Half the Western U.S.—and Can't Take Care of It Selling just a fraction of the land would reduce our enormous debt. John Stossel | 9.10.2025 12:55 PM
Parental Rights Should We Take More Kids From Their Homes or Fewer? When children are abused, we want government to step in. But Child Protective Services sometimes goes too far. John Stossel | 8.27.2025 6:13 PM
Cellphones Do Phones Really Wreck Kids' Lives? "If your kids went through puberty on a smartphone with social media, they came out different than human beings before that," argues psychologist Jonathan Haidt. John Stossel | 8.20.2025 10:15 AM
Socialism The Next Wave of Socialist Politicians Will Bring Crisis, Not Change From free buses to rent control, their big promises ignore the hard lessons of socialism’s failures. John Stossel | 8.13.2025 4:26 PM
Socialism Zohran Mamdani's Socialist Vision for New York Is a Recipe for Disaster Socialism doesn't bring a dignified life. On the contrary, it's wrecked lives wherever it's been tried. John Stossel | 8.6.2025 2:35 PM
Occupational Licensing You Shouldn't Need a License to Talk Occupational licensing can be useless, harmful—and even a threat to free speech. John Stossel | 7.30.2025 11:36 PM
Capitalism The New Right's War on Capitalism A growing number of conservatives agree with the left that free markets are to blame for society's ills. John Stossel | 7.23.2025 1:35 PM
Environmentalism How Environmental Groups Use Hysteria To Get Rich—and Stop Progress Most of Big E spends little on cleaning rivers or parks and far more on filing lawsuits. John Stossel | 7.16.2025 6:47 AM
Labor Unions How the Teamsters Cost 30,000 People Their Jobs UPS, Yellow Corporation, and Boeing all gave into union demands. Massive layoffs followed. John Stossel | 7.9.2025 10:35 AM
4th of July The Fourth of July Is a Celebration of Freedom—From Government The belief that limited government best protects individual rights turned out to be America’s secret sauce. John Stossel | 7.4.2025 12:01 AM
Eminent Domain The Government Seized Her Home for a Project That Never Happened Twenty years after Susette Kelo lost at the Supreme Court, the land where her house once stood is still an empty lot. John Stossel | 6.18.2025 12:30 AM
Culture War The Rise of the Woke Right Some conservatives are embracing the very trends they once mocked—including victimhood, cancel culture, and even struggle sessions. John Stossel | 6.11.2025 12:30 AM
Socialism He Escaped North Korea—Twice. Now He Warns People About Socialism. "Just go to North Korea for 10 days and you'll know how bad it is," says Charles Ryu. John Stossel | 5.28.2025 12:30 AM
School Choice Competition Improves Services. So Why Not Apply That to Schools? Government schools now spend about $20,000 per student. John Stossel | 5.21.2025 11:50 AM
Tariffs 3 Myths About Tariffs "If this is the end of my American dream," says one small business owner, "I'm going to go down swinging." John Stossel | 5.14.2025 12:30 AM
Department of Education Why Is There a Federal Education Department? Despite the fearmongering from teachers unions, it's largely useless. John Stossel | 5.7.2025 10:10 AM
Big Government The Government's Wars on Poverty and Drugs Had Good Intentions—but Bad Results "All these government programs that regulate and control, they institutionalize mediocrity at best," argues Yaron Brook, head of the Ayn Rand Institute. John Stossel | 4.30.2025 3:05 PM
Climate Change 4 Apocalypses That Never Were Climate change is real and may cause real problems. But media outlets keep pushing hysterical myths that don't materialize. John Stossel | 4.23.2025 2:05 PM
Climate Change 3 Apocalyptic Climate Change Predictions That Failed To Come True Yes, the climate is warming. But, despite what you may have heard, we can deal with it. John Stossel | 4.16.2025 12:30 AM
Gambling Many Politicians Want To Ban Gambling. So Why Are They OK With State Lotteries? Lottery ticket buyers are disproportionately poor, and the odds are very bad. But governments want the money. John Stossel | 4.9.2025 1:15 AM
Excessive Fines The Government Threatened To Seize His Home Over Tall Grass Bureaucrats in Dunedin, Florida, originally hit Jim Ficken with a fine close to $30,000. When he couldn't pay that, things turned dire. John Stossel | 4.2.2025 1:11 AM
Culture War DEI Is Dying in the Private Sector Diversity, equity, and inclusion sound good. But DEI programs divide people more than they empower. John Stossel | 3.26.2025 11:30 AM
Immigration Immigrants Are a Boon to the U.S. Economy Studies have continuously shown that migrants create more jobs than they destroy. John Stossel | 3.19.2025 1:45 PM
Taxes Climate Activists Are Passing Laws To Tax the Past A New York law demands fossil fuel companies pay $75 billion for carbon emissions dating back to the year 2000. Other Democrat-controlled states plan to follow suit. John Stossel | 3.12.2025 3:40 PM
Europe America Is Beating Europe A popular narrative says Europeans are better off because of increased regulation. Reality paints a different picture. John Stossel | 3.5.2025 7:15 AM
Socialism Why Do 36 Percent of Americans Have a Positive View of Socialism? Socialism promises many things and claims to prioritize people over profits. But what people actually get is different. John Stossel | 2.26.2025 4:45 PM
Entrepreneurship Self-Interest Helps Everyone Entrepreneurial greed is why we have iPhones, refrigerators, cars that usually work, supermarkets that stay open all night, and many of the things that make our lives better. John Stossel | 2.12.2025 4:45 PM
DOGE America Is Going Broke. Will the Department of Government Efficiency Help? Eliminating the deficit requires cutting the biggest spending—defense, Medicare, Social Security. So far, Trump says he won't touch those. John Stossel | 2.5.2025 6:10 PM
Javier Milei Javier Milei Promised To Take a 'Chainsaw' to Argentina's Government. It's Working. Inflation and rent prices are down, and the country has a budget surplus. John Stossel | 1.29.2025 3:50 PM
ESG Why Companies Are Ditching ESG Many have started to recognize a need to focus on their core business rather than virtue-signaling. John Stossel | 1.22.2025 4:15 PM
Libertarianism Can the Private Sector Really Replace All Government Functions? I can't stand big government, but I think we need something. Michael Malice says I'm wrong. John Stossel | 1.15.2025 12:40 PM
Higher Education Are Young People Depressed Because of What They Were Taught in College? The Coddling of the American Mind, a new documentary based on the book of the same name, makes the case that destructive ideas in higher education are making people anxious. John Stossel | 1.8.2025 5:20 PM
Guns The Racist Roots of Gun Control Measures restricting gun ownership still disproportionately harm black and brown people, says Maj Toure, founder of "Black Guns Matter." John Stossel | 1.1.2025 12:30 AM
Charity/Philanthropy This Holiday Season, Remember That Charity Is More Effective Than Government Charities can focus resources on those who genuinely need a hand while saying no to those who just need "a kick in the butt." John Stossel | 12.29.2024 7:00 AM
John Stossel Capitalism Is the Antidote to 'Black-Pilled' Internet Pessimists Michael Malice's new book The White Pill sees a positive future for the country, in contrast with internet culture. John Stossel | 12.18.2024 12:00 PM
Labor Unions Union Workers Are Fighting To Keep U.S. Ports More Dangerous and Less Efficient Union president Harold Daggett says longshoremen will strike again in January if they don't get a ban on automation. John Stossel | 12.4.2024 12:30 AM
Thanksgiving This Thanksgiving, Be Thankful for Free Markets The Pilgrims learned this lesson the hard way. Fast forward 400 years, and many Americans have forgotten. John Stossel | 11.28.2024 10:59 AM
Energy & Environment Mining Is Safer, Cleaner, and More Ethical in America. So Why Do Environmentalists Stand in the Way? The U.S. now ranks second to last in the time it takes to develop a new mine—roughly 29 years. Only Zambia is worse. John Stossel | 11.20.2024 4:10 PM
Free-Range Kids Kids Are More Anxious. What If We Gave Them Independence? Giving kids freedom doesn't just help children, says Lenore Skenazy, founder of the nonprofit Let Grow. It helps parents, too. John Stossel | 11.13.2024 12:00 PM
Activism Activists Profiting Off Panic Are Wrong. The World Is Getting Better. But if they admitted that, they would be out of a job. John Stossel | 10.30.2024 1:15 PM
Children This Mom Was Arrested and Jailed for Making Her Son Walk a Half-Mile Home Media hysteria and overzealous governments have led many to believe that childhood independence is a form of abuse. John Stossel | 10.23.2024 12:15 PM
Economics Donald Trump and Kamala Harris Keep Making Economically Illiterate Promises These policies may sound good on paper—but they would be disastrous in reality. John Stossel | 10.16.2024 12:30 AM
