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5 minutes of the audiobook of '30 Days'
This clip gives a good sense of what '30 Days a Black Man' is all about and shows what a good narrator I was lucky to have.
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When America's invisible airwaves were too narrow and overcrowded
In 1990 Business Week covered the 'crisis' of allocating spectrum space for things like cell phones. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas…
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1990 ... A magazine column is born
On Jan. 10, 1990 the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette announced the coming of my weekly column on magazines. For the next 17 years I wrote one for the PG and the…
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'American Slaughter' -- July 4th edition
So far this year homicides are in decline in Chicago and elsewhere, but young black males are still killing each other disproportionately at a steady…
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The man who had no trash
It didn't matter that J.P. Ronk of exurban Peters Township had nothing to throw away, local laws were going to force him to pay $100 for trash pickup. I…
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Don't rest in peace, Berlin Wall
My grim tour of East Berlin’s gray streets and empty stores in 1988 taught me all I needed to know about the bureaucratic awfulness of daily life under…
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Edward Snowden
John Stossel interviews the heroic whistleblower Edward Snowden.
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June 2025

Scott Bullock, IJ and the fight against government eminent domain abuse
20 years ago Bullock of the Institute for Justice took the fight against eminent domain abuse to the U.S. Supreme Court — and lost. I interviewed him in…
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Getting the scoop on Tim McVeigh
Newsweek used a military hero to land a prison interview with America's homegrown terrorist. My weekly take on America's news, culture and ideas -- from…
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Memories of a socialist supermarket
My grim tour of East Berlin’s gray streets and empty stores in 1988 taught me all I needed to know about everyday life under Soviet-style socialism…
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Going back to 1948 and 'A Negro in the South'
In 2009 I did research for '30 Days a Black Man,' my 2017 book about the undercover mission star Pittsburgh newspaperman Ray Sprigle made into the Jim…
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Proud to have been an early skeptic in the covid war
History will show the war on covid was the stupidest move the people in charge have ever made. In May 2020 I was a mere ex-Uber driver, but even I could…
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