The Problem with Jon Stewart — Season 2
He's got issues.
About this season
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 (12)
1. The War Over Gender
7.2Aired 6 October 2022 • 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.
2. Where Is Our Tax Money Going?
6.8Aired 13 October 2022 • 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.
3. Globalization: Made in America
8.5Aired 20 October 2022 • 34 min
America's leaders know what's plaguing the country: globalization. Thankfully they have a plan—globalization of their own, American-style.
4. Midterms: This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
8.0Aired 27 October 2022 • 37 min
The most important U.S. midterm elections of all time are here (again). But the game has changed.
5. Allies: Friends Without Benefits
5.5Aired 3 November 2022 • 40 min
When America needs help from allies, it makes promises. When those allies ask for help, it breaks those promises.
6. Election Wrap-Up Special
8.5Aired 10 November 2022 • 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.
7. Chaos, Law, and Order
7.0Aired 2 March 2023 • 37 min
Can you be tough on crime but soft on guns? The numbers say no, but too many legislators say yes.
8. The Military Industrial Excess
7.0Aired 9 March 2023 • 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.
9. The Inflation Blame Game
8.0Aired 16 March 2023 • 34 min
Inflation is hard on everybody. So why is the Fed making it even harder by helping push people out of work?
10. America's Incarceration Epidemic
7.5Aired 23 March 2023 • 31 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?
11. Searching for Allies
8.0Aired 30 March 2023 • 31 min
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.
12. Trump Indicted
8.5Aired 6 April 2023 • 36 min
A former president getting indicted makes us wonder: Do we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States?