The Problem with Jon Stewart
This series looks at major public issues by bringing together people directly affected and examining the larger systems behind them. Through discussion and debate, it focuses on why these problems feel so difficult to solve and what change might look like.
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Season 2
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E1
The War Over Gender
It's a boy! It's a girl! It's a spectrum! It's 19 possible chromosomal combinations! Look, it's complicated. Just watch.
Oct 6, 2022 -
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Where Is Our Tax Money Going?
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.
Oct 13, 2022 · 41m -
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Globalization: Made in America
America's leaders know what's plaguing the country: globalization. Thankfully they have a plan—globalization of their own, American-style.
Oct 20, 2022 -
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Midterms: This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
The most important U.S. midterm elections of all time are here (again). But the game has changed.
Oct 27, 2022 -
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Allies: Friends Without Benefits
When America needs help from allies, it makes promises. When those allies ask for help, it breaks those promises.
Nov 3, 2022 -
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Election Wrap-Up Special
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.
Nov 10, 2022 -
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Chaos, Law, and Order
Can you be tough on crime but soft on guns? The numbers say no, but too many legislators say yes.
Mar 2, 2023 -
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The Military Industrial Excess
Can the U.S. be the world’s arms dealer and its policeman all at the same time? The government sure thinks so.
Mar 9, 2023 -
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The Inflation Blame Game
Inflation is hard on everybody. So why is the Fed making it even harder by helping push people out of work?
Mar 16, 2023 -
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America's Incarceration Epidemic
We have a simple philosophy in America: You do the crime, you do the time. But why is the time always a life sentence?
Mar 23, 2023 -
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Searching for Allies
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.
Mar 30, 2023 -
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E12
Trump Indicted
A former president getting indicted makes us wonder: Do we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States?
Apr 6, 2023
