Opinion Archive: John Stossel
- A Libertarian Year Ahead? — Wednesday, December 28, 2011
- Obamacare Abominations — Wednesday, December 21, 2011
- Job Creators Fighting Back — Wednesday, December 14, 2011
- Ten Years to Greece — Wednesday, December 7, 2011
- Blocking the Paths Out of Poverty — Wednesday, November 30, 2011
- America: Land of Free Speech -- Sometimes — Wednesday, November 23, 2011
- FDA Kills Smokers — Wednesday, November 16, 2011
- The FDA Kills — Wednesday, November 9, 2011
- The Stupidity of 'Buy American' — Wednesday, November 2, 2011
- School Competition Rescues Kids — Wednesday, October 26, 2011
- Wall Street Protesters Half Right — Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- Government the Job Killer — Wednesday, October 12, 2011
- Government Makes Us Poor — Wednesday, October 5, 2011
- Governments Don't Create Prosperity — Wednesday, September 28, 2011
- Exciting Schools — Wednesday, September 21, 2011
- Ponzi! Ponzi! Ponzi! — Wednesday, September 14, 2011
- Ten Years After — Wednesday, September 7, 2011
- The Gay Marriage Debate — Wednesday, August 31, 2011
- Almost Everything We're Taught Is Wrong — Wednesday, August 24, 2011
- The GOP Race Heats Up — Wednesday, August 17, 2011
- A Government That Kills — Wednesday, August 10, 2011
- Balancing the Budget — Wednesday, August 3, 2011
- What We Don't Know About History Can Hurt Us — Wednesday, July 27, 2011
- A Businessman for President? — Wednesday, July 20, 2011
- David Mamet's Conversion — Wednesday, July 13, 2011
- The College Scam — Wednesday, July 6, 2011
- A New Day in Politics — Wednesday, June 29, 2011
- Who Is Gary Johnson? — Wednesday, June 22, 2011
- The Money Hole — Wednesday, June 15, 2011
- The Cancer of Regulation — Wednesday, June 8, 2011
- Government Against Blacks — Wednesday, June 1, 2011
- Battle of the Budgets — Wednesday, May 25, 2011
- Plentiful Fuel — Wednesday, May 18, 2011
- Ron Paul: Less Lonely These Days — Wednesday, May 11, 2011
- Gasoline and Onions — Wednesday, May 4, 2011
- Government Creates Poverty — Wednesday, April 27, 2011
- Watch the Watchmen — Wednesday, April 20, 2011
- Welcome Budget-Cut Talk — Wednesday, April 13, 2011
- Gun Owners Have a Right to Privacy — Wednesday, April 6, 2011
- Students Who Get It! — Wednesday, March 30, 2011
- Corporate Welfare — Wednesday, March 23, 2011
- End the Drug War, Save Black America — Wednesday, March 16, 2011
- Obama's Green-Jobs Fantasies — Wednesday, March 9, 2011
- An Academy Award-Winning Movie, Stuttering and Me — Wednesday, March 2, 2011
- Why Does Government Suppress Information? — Wednesday, February 23, 2011
- Is Seasteading the Future? — Wednesday, February 16, 2011
- Spontaneous Order — Wednesday, February 9, 2011
- I Can Balance the Budget — Wednesday, February 2, 2011
- My State of the Union Address — Wednesday, January 26, 2011
- Will the Republicans Really Cut This Time? — Wednesday, January 19, 2011
- Same as the Old Boss? — Wednesday, January 12, 2011
- Prohibitionists: Leave Us Alone! — Wednesday, January 5, 2011
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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