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The Problem with Jon Stewart

2021 · Rated 7.6/10

Last aired: S2 E12, Trump Indicted · 2023-04-07

It's easy to feel overwhelmed by the world's problems. It's harder to pinpoint the systems responsible for creating them. In this series, Jon Stewart brings together people impacted by different parts of a problem to discuss how we come up with change.

Cast

Jon Stewart Host

Season 2

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E1 The War Over Gender 2022-10-07 · 47 min It's a boy! It's a girl! It's a spectrum! It's 19 possible chromosomal combinations! Look, it's complicated. Just watch.

E2 Where Is Our Tax Money Going? 2022-10-14 · 41 min Sure, people hate taxes — but maybe they wouldn't if they knew where the money went? Well, we found out, and now we hate it even more.

E3 Globalization: Made in America 2022-10-21 · 34 min America's leaders know what's plaguing the country: globalization. Thankfully they have a plan — globalization of their own, American-style.

E4 Midterms: This Is What Democracy Looks Like? 2022-10-28 · 38 min The most important U.S. midterm elections of all time are here (again). But the game has changed.

E5 Allies: Friends Without Benefits 2022-11-04 · 40 min When America needs help from allies, it makes promises. When those allies ask for help, it breaks those promises.

E6 Election Wrap-Up Special 2022-11-11 · 35 min Who won? Who lost? Are we still a democracy? All we know is that everyone is happy and absolutely no one is questioning the results.

E7 Chaos, Law, and Order 2023-03-03 · 37 min Can you be tough on crime but soft on guns? The numbers say no. but too many legislators say yes.

E8 The Military Industrial Excess 2023-03-10 · 34 min Can the U.S. be the world's arms dealer and its policeman all at the same time? The government sure thinks so.

E9 The Inflation Blame Game 2023-03-17 · 34 min Inflation is hard on everybody. So why is the Fed making it even harder by helping push people out of work?

E10 America's Incarceration Epidemic 2023-03-24 · 30 min We have a simple philosophy in America: You do the crime, you do the time. But why is the time always a life sentence?

E11 Searching for Allies 2023-03-31 Jon heads to Europe on an urgent diplomatic mission to see who's with us, who's against us…and who makes the best pastries.

E12 Trump Indicted 2023-04-07 · 36 min A former president getting indicted makes us wonder: Do we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States?

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