Host and Creator, Stossel TV
Betsy Devos is a promising choice for education secretary.
Donald Trump's picks to head the Department of Labor and Small Business Administration may be good, but the bureaucracies shouldn't exist in the first place.
A skating rink is just one example of how spontaneous order is more effective than central control for organizational purposes.
Government spending and crony capitalism are out of control, and few people bother to go to Washington to ask for spending cuts.
Property rights saved the Pilgrims from starvation; a lack of property rights keeps Indians in poverty today.
The ruling class decide which ideas are acceptable, which scientific theories to believe, what speech is permitted.
Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump aren't the only choices.
Not as easy as advertised.
The next president could choose up to five Supreme Court Justices.
Libertarians Gary Johnson and William Weld suggest there are limits to presidential power.
Gary Johnson and Bill Weld join John Stossel on Friday at 9pm on the Fox Business Network.
Overall, the major parties' VP candidates are way less scary than the presidential candidates.
Trump's supporters are convinced he'll shake up the system, but they ignore evidence that Trump is one more manipulative member of the rich political class.
Both Bill and Hillary Clinton continue to thrive despite their remarkable record of sleazy dealings.
Beware of people who claim to have simple answers to America's race and crime problems. And beware of the media, which make it seem like life is getting worse.
States like Illinois bar ex-cons from entering dozens of professions, from architect to slaughtered livestock buyer.
Arguing over regulations that keep poor people from improving their situations
Taught not to try.
Anything government can do, the private sector can do better. It can even do things government can't.
Lessons from Puerto Rico.
John Stossel responds to critics of his last column.
Instead, hospitals are run like socialist bureaucracies.
Candidates vying for the Libertarian nomination sound better than those on the Republican-Democratic side.
Gary Johnson, John McAfee, and Austin Petersen at the first nationally televised Libertarian debate in U.S. history.
It can be a good thing politicians often break their promises.
Some say libertarians could win politically if they give up their principles.
Government pretends it's the cause of progress, then it strangles innovation.
Bureaucrats stand athwart technological progress, yelling stop.
Most 2016 presidential candidates want big government their way.
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