John Stossel

John Stossel is author of No They Can't! Why Government Fails — But Individuals Succeed. For other Creators Syndicate writers and cartoonists, visit www.creators.com.

Immigration Is American

Immigration Is American

What happens when the immigrant does that, goes to the U.S. embassy and says, I’d like to work in America legally?

Hold On, Mr. President

Hold On, Mr. President

The urge to “do something” is understandable. But Government can’t get domestic policy right. Don’t assume it gets foreign policy right.

Patrolmen Without Borders

Patrolmen Without Borders

Even as the federal government fails to control the southern border, it sends the Border Patrol farther into the interior, where Americans complain that agents harass people who are already U.S. citizens.

Policing America

Policing America

Regardless of our political leanings, we should be wary of big government in all its forms.

Important Slow News

Important Slow News

Recently, President Barack Obama was mocked for saying: “The world is less violent than it has ever been. It is healthier than it has ever been. It is more tolerant than it has ever been. It is better fed than it’s ever been. It is more educated than it’s ever been.” Al…

Omission Control

Omission Control

Reporter Sharyl Attkisson’s story sounds familiar to me: A major network got tired of her reports criticizing government. She no longer works there.

Piketty’s Popular Nonsense

Piketty’s Popular Nonsense

When markets are free, poor people can move out of their income group. Income mobility, matters more than income inequality.

GMO’s: Eat Without Fear

GMO’s: Eat Without Fear

Rising generations will have more food options than ever before. They face less risk of starvation or disease than any humans who have ever lived. Let’s give them science instead of scare stories.

Good News

Good News

It’s fortunate entrepreneurs keep making things faster than worried, control-freak government can smother them.

Offensive Speech

Offensive Speech

It’s fine if the NBA — or any private group — wants to censor speech on its own property. But it’s important that government not have the power to silence us.

American Dreaming

American Dreaming

Government mostly hinders us, and then brags that it is waiting to take charge when we fail.

Privacy, Please

Privacy, Please

You can decide whether to use Facebook or let private sites install cookies to track your info. Johansson didn’t give that hacker permission to steal her photos. And I didn’t give the NSA — not to mention the IRS, FBI, etc. — permission to access my information.

Earth Daze

Earth Daze

This Earth Day, instead of attacking those who sell fossil fuels, I will applaud them for overcoming constant environmental hysteria — while providing affordable energy that will allow us to fight poverty, which is the real threat to the people of the world.

Taxing Your Life Away

Taxing Your Life Away

“What the tax code is doing is trying to choose our values for us,” complains Yaron Brook from the Ayn Rand Institute.

Bullies Rule

Bullies Rule

Twenty-two million government workers delay the Keystone XL oil pipeline, raid poker games, force us to put ethanol in cars, prohibit drugs and medical devices that might make our lives better, take about half our money, and jail more citizens than even China and Russia…

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