Commentary By John Stossel

The Cult of Victims by John Stossel

The world has enough real problems without declaring everyone a "victim."

Government: Here to Help! By John Stossel

Government wants you to think it helps you at every turn. Every time you make a decision, a purchase, government wants to be there, looking essential.    

Law and Border By John Stossel

How many wars can we fight?

Cutting Red Tape By John Stossel

I'm upset that the presidential candidates, all of them, rarely mention a huge problem: the quiet cancer that kills opportunity -- regulation. The accumulated burden of it is the reason that America is stuck in the slowest economic recovery since the Depression.

I understand why candidates don't talk about it: Regulation is boring. But it's important.

Market Magic By John Stossel

People have long lists of things they think the market can't possibly do -- from building subways to fighting wars. Sometimes, the market does them anyway.

War, for example. Even conservatives, who often praise markets, assume that only government can fight terrorists. Tell that to Matthew VanDyke.

Rank the Candidates By John Stossel

My list of best to worst possible presidents:

Breaking the Rules By John Stossel

Humans need rules. Rules make life more predictable. But when the rules multiply, the world needs some rule-breakers.

Immigration Is Great By John Stossel

Yikes, you really hate me!    

Many of you, anyway, based on Twitter and Facebook comments posted after I argued immigration with Ann Coulter on my TV show.    

Gun Lies By John Stossel

My town, New York City, enforces rigid gun laws. Police refused to assign me a gun permit. The law doesn't even let me hold a fake gun on TV to demonstrate something.

But New York politicians are so eager to vilify gun ownership that they granted an exception to the anti-gun group States United to Prevent Gun Violence. New York allowed States United to set up a fake gun store, where cameras filmed potential gun customers being spoofed by an actor pretending to be a gun-seller.

Governed by Zealots By John Stossel

The government's environmental rules defeat even environmentalists.    

The War on Uber by John Stossel

Hillary Clinton gave a speech warning that the new "sharing economy" of businesses such as theride-hailing company Uber is "raising hard questions about workplace protections."

Progress by John Stossel

Obamacare! The War on Drugs! A War on Poverty! Prohibition! The idea that government will bring social progress isn't new.

Wealth Gap By John Stossel

Nearly 10,000 people turned out to hear Bernie Sanders in Wisconsin. Why? Apparently, many Democrats want socialism.

Sanders is the Vermont senator who is running for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination.

Heroes, Villains by John Stossel

Have you seen the new Jurassic Park movie, "Jurassic World?"

Mankiller Money? by John Stossel

A woman will be on the new $10 bill, bumping Alexander Hamilton aside. Treasury Secretary Jack Lew says he will choose the woman by year's end, based on "input from the public."

The Anti-Science Left by John Stossel

This year is the 10th anniversary of a book called "The Republican War on Science." I could just as easily write a book called "The Democratic War on Science."

Green Lies By John Stossel

Millions go to SeaWorld to learn more about sea life and get closer to killer whales. But fewer go now because the documentary "Blackfish" exposed what one reporter called "the darker side" of SeaWorld.

The movie, which CNN bought and ran over and over, tells how greedy businessmen take baby whales from their mothers and imprison them in small aquariums, where the frustrated animals are a threat to each other and their trainers.

Socialist "Justice" By John Stossel

Protestors demand "social justice." I hate their chant. If I oppose their cause, then I'm for social "injustice"? Nonsense.  

Don't Go! by John Stossel

It's graduation time! Have we learned much? No.

Dr. Capitalism By John Stossel

For years, my scientist brother Tom was the nonpolitical Stossel.