Opinion Archive: John Stossel
- Memo to the House: Adopt the Filibuster — Wednesday, December 30, 2009
- Dump the Audience? — Wednesday, December 23, 2009
- Free Stuff From Sam — Wednesday, December 16, 2009
- ABC Fired Stossel? — Wednesday, December 9, 2009
- Stop Insuring Mortgages — Wednesday, December 2, 2009
- We Pay Them to Lie to Us — Wednesday, November 25, 2009
- Worse Than Taxes — Wednesday, November 18, 2009
- The U.S. House of Presumptuous Meddlers — Wednesday, November 11, 2009
- The Double Standard About Journalists' Bias — Wednesday, November 4, 2009
- Self-Governance Works — Wednesday, October 28, 2009
- A Nobel Prize for Showing That Freedom Works — Wednesday, October 21, 2009
- What's Michael Moore Talking About? — Wednesday, October 14, 2009
- Transfer Machine — Wednesday, October 7, 2009
- Success No Matter What — Wednesday, September 30, 2009
- Going to Fox II — Wednesday, September 23, 2009
- I'm Moving to Fox — Wednesday, September 16, 2009
- Obama's Speech Tonight — Wednesday, September 9, 2009
- Clunker Legislation — Wednesday, September 2, 2009
- Competition — Wednesday, August 26, 2009
- Obamacare's Inevitable Logicj — Wednesday, August 19, 2009
- Big Business Goes Big for Health-Care Reform — Wednesday, August 12, 2009
- Impossible Promises — Wednesday, August 5, 2009
- A Minimum Wage Equals Minimum Jobs — Wednesday, July 29, 2009
- Arrogance — Wednesday, July 22, 2009
- Health-Care Competition — Wednesday, July 15, 2009
- Insurance Is No Answer — Wednesday, July 8, 2009
- "Better" Health Care? — Wednesday, July 1, 2009
- The Nirvana Fallacy — Wednesday, June 24, 2009
- A Refreshing Spin on Cable TV — Wednesday, June 17, 2009
- Competition Would Save Medicine, Too — Wednesday, June 10, 2009
- Pay for Your Own Rescue — Wednesday, June 3, 2009
- Pregnant Women Have No Right to Their Jobs — Wednesday, May 27, 2009
- The Medicare Ponzi Scheme — Wednesday, May 20, 2009
- Eat the Tigers! — Wednesday, May 13, 2009
- Steroids Hysteria — Wednesday, May 6, 2009
- Government Help Hurts — Wednesday, April 29, 2009
- Prohibition Spawns Drug Violence — Wednesday, April 22, 2009
- Simplify the Rules — Wednesday, April 15, 2009
- The Universal Pre-K Scam — Wednesday, April 8, 2009
- Sell The Roads! — Wednesday, April 1, 2009
- Butt Out, Feds — Wednesday, March 25, 2009
- Making It — Wednesday, March 18, 2009
- The Fatal Conceit — Wednesday, March 11, 2009
- Obama the Efficient Goes to Washington — Wednesday, March 4, 2009
- Judging Obama — Wednesday, February 25, 2009
- Real Jobs Create Wealth — Wednesday, February 18, 2009
- Making a Bad Bill Worse — Wednesday, February 11, 2009
- We Can't Spend Our Way to Prosperity — Wednesday, February 4, 2009
- A College Scam — Wednesday, January 28, 2009
- Anything That's Peaceful — Wednesday, January 21, 2009
- A False Sense of Security — Wednesday, January 14, 2009
- Madoff Is a Piker — Wednesday, January 7, 2009
About John Stossel
Award-winning news correspondent John Stossel is currently with Fox Business Network and Fox News. Before making the change to Fox News, Stossel was the co-anchor of ABC News's "20/20." Eight to 10 million people watched his program weekly. Often, he ended "20/20" with a TV column called "Give Me a Break," which challenged conventional wisdom.
Stossel's prime-time specials on myths, parenting issues, sex and trends in pop culture rate among the top news programs and have earned him uncommon praise: "The most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time," said The Dallas Morning News. The Orlando Sentinel said he "has the gift for entertaining while saying something profound."
Stossel takes this reporting expertise and applies it to his weekly newspaper column for Creators Syndicate. Ready to cover topics newspaper readers care about, Stossel pokes fun at the ridiculous and lauds the excellent.
Newspaper editors may wonder whether Stossel's incredible TV ratings will translate from TV to print. The answer to that question is a resounding yes: A few years ago, HarperCollins published Stossel's book Give Me a Break, and readers (the same ones who read newspapers) made it a New York Times best seller for 11 weeks. His second book, from Hyperion, Myths, Lies and Downright Stupidity, made the list for 13 weeks.
Stossel's most recent special, "Stupid in America," questioned why, despite the failures of socialism, America has a government-monopoly-run K-12 education.
Stossel's first special, "Are We Scaring Ourselves to Death?" examined exaggerated fears of things like chemicals and crime. It was followed by "The Blame Game," which looked at Americans's tendency to blame their misfortunes on others. In "You Can't Say That!" he looked at the battle between free speech and censorship. He focused on bogus lawsuits in "The Trouble With Lawyers" and bogus scientific claims in "Junk Science: What You Know That May Not Be So."
Stossel has received 19 Emmy Awards and has been honored five times for excellence in consumer reporting by the National Press Club. Among his other awards are the George Polk Award for Outstanding Local Reporting and the George Foster Peabody Award.
He is a graduate of Princeton University, with a Bachelor of Arts degree in psychology.
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