John Stossel

SEIU Local 721 workers picket outside Los Angeles General Medical Center on Wednesday, April 30, 2025. The union is striking due to claims of unfair labor practices by Los Angeles County, a failure to bargain in good faith, and other violations. The 48-hour strike with a reported 55,000 members involved started on Monday, April 28, and will end on Wednesday, April 30. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)

Unions help some workers. But they hurt many more.

July 16, 2025 at 11:19 a.m.

Progressives love unions. Not only do unions protect workers, they say, unions gave us the weekend and the middle class. I say, capitalism created the middle class. Employers, competing for...

FILE – In this June 30, 2006, file photo, the home of Susette Kelo stands alone at the corner of Smith Street and Walbach Street in the Fort Trumbull neighborhood of New London, Conn. Susette Kelo took on the city of New London, which was trying to take her house through eminent domain. She ultimately lost in a 5-4 decision by the Supreme Court.(AP Photo/Jack Sauer, File)

When politicians and developers collude, no one’s property is safe

June 19, 2025 at 12:29 p.m.

Is your home your castle? Not when eminent domain law lets politicians confiscate your property if they claim it's for "public use."

Statues of Karl Marx, left, and Friedrich Engels brave a snow flurry in Berlin, Germany, Thursday, Feb. 19, 2009. Marx and Engels are the authors of The Communist Manifesto of 1848 and the founders of Marxism. Karl Marx also wrote Das Kapital. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

62% of young Americans hold a ‘favorable view’ of socialism. How can they be so ignorant?

May 31, 2025 at 11:43 a.m.

Socialism has been tried by lots of countries. It's failed. It always fails.

FILE – President Donald Trump holds up a signed executive order alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon in the East Room of the White House in Washington, March 20, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Government-backed student loans are welfare for the better off

May 7, 2025 at 2:51 p.m.

Why is there a federal Education Department?

U.S. Marines deploy along the U.S.-Mexico border near the San Ysidro Port of Entry, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, in San Diego with Tijuana, Mexico in the background. (AP Photo/Denis Poroy)

John Stossel: America needs more immigrants, not fewer

April 3, 2025 at 10:21 a.m.

Undocumented immigrants pay more into our economy than they get back

The Reichstag building with the German Parliament Bundestag is illuminated in Berlin, Germany, Monday, Dec. 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)

John Stossel: America shouldn’t look to Europe for answers

March 6, 2025 at 10:05 a.m.

I often complain about America's excessive regulations. But Europe has many more.

Sen. Josh Hawley, R-Mo., questions Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg, as he and others appear before the Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing on online child safety on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2024 in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Quietly, capitalism, harnessing individuals’ greed, makes the world a better place

February 13, 2025 at 6:01 a.m.

"Stop the greed!" shouts Sen. Bernie Sanders.

FILE – Presidential hopeful Javier Milei brandishes a chainsaw during a campaign rally in La Plata, Argentina, Sept. 12, 2023. Milei will be inaugurated as the new president of Argentina on Sunday, Dec. 10. (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko, File)

John Stossel: The chainsaw president

January 29, 2025 at 11:57 a.m.

Milei's success not only shows that cuts are possible, but that when they are explained intelligently, they are popular.

John Stossel: Colleges went mad. How can we fix them?

January 8, 2025 at 2:01 p.m.

"The Coddling of the American Mind" is a good introduction to how some of today's schools harm students.

Teachers Sherry Donahue, center, and Robyn Taylor, right, walk at the March for Our Lives event, advocating for gun control, marching in front of the Galleria Mall at Tyler in Riverside, on Saturday, June 11, 2022. March for our Lives was founded in 2018 after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The organization’s aim is to end gun violence.(Photo by Alex Gallardo, Contributing Photographer)

John Stossel: Gun control laws are racist

January 2, 2025 at 9:51 a.m.

Media scream, "Too many people have guns!"

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