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How Libertarian Politician Jeff Hewitt Won in California
July 08, 2019 13:01 - 4 minutes - 50 MB VideoRiverside County Supervisor Jeff Hewitt is a successful pool construction entrepreneur, one of four elected officials governing an area of...
Dave Barry Is Running for President (Again)
July 01, 2019 15:30 - 29 minutes - 204 MB VideoDave Barry is the author of approximately eleventy billion books and the recipient of exactly one Pulitzer Prize. For four...
The War on Backpage.com Is a War on Sex Workers
June 26, 2019 12:00 - 38 minutes - 134 MB VideoOn the morning of April 6, 2018, the FBI arrested Michael Lacey and James Larkin and seized Backpage.com, the website...
Stossel: 2020 Candidates' Worst and Best Ideas
June 25, 2019 14:10 - 5 minutes - 18.9 MB VideoThe 2020 campaign season is getting started. John Stossel says he's "repulsed by most politicians" because "not only are they...
How Europe Censors What Americans Say Online
June 20, 2019 16:00 - 9 minutes - 98.3 MB VideoGoogle, Facebook, and Twitter are protected by the First Amendment, but are their decisions about which content to remove and which...
Stossel: In Defense of Capitalism
June 18, 2019 14:00 - 7 minutes - 72.2 MB VideoProgressives claim capitalism is "immoral" because some people become rich while others stay poor. Yaron Brook, chairman of the Ayn Rand Institute, says...
Campus Radicals Against Free Speech
June 17, 2019 14:30 - 40 minutes - 160 MB VideoReason's Robby Soave has been writing about culture, free speech, due process, and moral outrage on campus since joining the magazine...
George Will's Uphill Battle Against Trump's GOP and the Democratic Socialist Left
June 14, 2019 14:00 - 41 minutes - 162 MB VideoIn an interview with Reason's Matt Welch, George Will talks about the importance of rehabilitating America's withered constitutional architecture, ponders what the punditry class got wrong in 2016, and reminisces about what it was like for a conservative columnist to criticize an erratic Republican president way back in 1973.
These People Are Risking Prison To Help Philadelphia's Drug Users
June 13, 2019 13:00 - 6 minutes - 194 MB VideoAddiction advocates in Philadelphia are gearing up for a fight with federal law enforcement over a so-called supervised injection site, where drug use can take place in the presence of medical professionals.Produced, edited, and narrated by Mark McDaniel. Solitude by Jahzzar. (CC BY-SA) Ghosts 02, 09, and 13 by Nine Inch Nails. (CC BY-NC-SA) Photo Credits: KEVIN DIETSCH/UPI/Newscom BERSAK DANIEL/SIPA/Newscom Douglas Graham/Loudoun Now/Newscom Kris Tripplaar/Sipa USA/Newscom MOLEKUUL/S...
Stossel: Don't Be Scared of Designer Babies
June 11, 2019 13:30 - 4 minutes - 15.9 MB VideoSoon parents will be able to alter their future offspring's intelligence, height, eye color, and more. And that's worth celebrating, argues JohnStossel in his latest video. In defense of "designer babies."
Stossel: The Paid Leave Fairy Tale
June 04, 2019 14:00 - 5 minutes - 18.7 MB VideoMost 2020 presidential candidates support government-mandated paid family leave. On the surface, that sounds like a good policy. Supporters are quick to point out that only the U.S. and Papua New Guinea don't require businesses to provide time off with compensation for new parents. Patrice Lee Onwuka, a senior policy analyst at Independent Women's Forum, says this argument is "disingenuous." Watch the latest video from John Stossel.
Why Bernie Sanders' Communist Misadventures Still Matter
June 03, 2019 14:05 - 15 minutes - 57 MB VideoSen. Bernie Sanders (I–Vt.) has spent his entire career explaining away the inevitable downsides of massively increasing the power of the state over the individual. And one thing has remained constant as he has shifted his focus from Nicaragua, Cuba, and the USSR to Denmark, Finland, and Sweden: In all of these countries, he's misled his followers about the political and economic realities on the ground.
Stossel: Harvard Caves to Student Mob
May 28, 2019 13:15 - 6 minutes - 22.3 MB VideoHarvard recently fired a residence hall dean, law professor Ronald Sullivan. Some students had complained that because Sullivan took accused...
This Environmentalist Says Only Nuclear Power Can Save Us Now
May 22, 2019 18:05 - 21 minutes - 226 MB VideoCalling climate change an existential threat to humanity, congressional Democrats have proposed a policy package called the Green New Deal....
Stossel: Money, Money, Money
May 21, 2019 13:00 - 6 minutes - 20.6 MB VideoWhat makes money trustworthy? "It has to be fixed in value," says Steve Forbes in his new documentary, In Money...
Today's Anti-Immigration Script Was Written 100 Years Ago by America's Elite
May 17, 2019 19:45 - 36 minutes - 425 MB VideoWhen Donald Trump claimed in 2015 that Mexican immigrants will ravage our women, destroy our neighborhoods, and taint our ethnic...
Court-Packing Plans Threaten Civil Liberties and the Separation of Powers
May 15, 2019 17:49 - 8 minutes - 28.9 MB VideoAfter the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia in 2016, President Obama nominated Merrick Garland to replace him....
Stossel: Moral Panic Over Sex Work
May 14, 2019 13:15 - 5 minutes - 19.9 MB VideoPolice often use "sex trafficking" and "prostitution" interchangeably. That's what happed in the Robert Kraft case, says Reason associate editor Elizabeth Nolan...
Hamilton Morris Is Changing the Way We Talk About Drugs
May 10, 2019 17:00 - 5 MB VideoWhat will American drug culture look like once prohibition is finally over and we can start to use more drugs...
Stossel: The Rise of Citizen Journalists
May 07, 2019 14:10 - 4 minutes - 15.5 MB VideoTim Pool is part of what some call the new media—citizen journalists who work for themselves. Increasingly, John Stossel says, such journalists...