The Problem with Jon Stewart Season 2
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.
Episodes
E1It's a boy! It's a girl! It's a spectrum! It's 19 possible chromosomal combinations! Look, it's complicated. Just watch.
E2Sure, 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.
E3America's leaders know what's plaguing the country: globalization. Thankfully they have a plan—globalization of their own, American-style.
E4The most important U.S. midterm elections of all time are here (again). But the game has changed.
E5When America needs help from allies, it makes promises. When those allies ask for help, it breaks those promises.
E6Who won? Who lost? Are we still a democracy? All we know is that everyone is happy and absolutely no one is questioning the results.
E7Can you be tough on crime but soft on guns? The numbers say no, but too many legislators say yes.
E8Can the U.S. be the world’s arms dealer and its policeman all at the same time? The government sure thinks so.
E9Inflation is hard on everybody. So why is the Fed making it even harder by helping push people out of work?
E10We have a simple philosophy in America: You do the crime, you do the time. But why is the time always a life sentence?
E11Jon heads to Europe on an urgent diplomatic mission to see who’s with us, who’s against us…and who makes the best pastries.
E12A former president getting indicted makes us wonder: Do we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States?