The BEST episodes of The Problem With Jon Stewart
Every episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Problem With Jon Stewart!
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 affected by different parts of a problem to discuss how we come up with change.
#2 - The War Over Gender
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/7/2022
It’s a boy! It’s a girl! It’s a spectrum! It’s 19 possible chromosomal combinations! Look, it’s complicated. Just watch.
#3 - The Inflation Blame Game
Season 2 - Episode 9 - Aired 3/17/2023
Inflation is hard on everybody. So why is the Fed making it even harder by helping push people out of work?
#7 - The Military Industrial Excess
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 3/10/2023
Can the U.S. be the world’s arms dealer and its policeman all at the same time? The government sure thinks so.
#8 - Midterms: This Is What Democracy Looks Like?
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/28/2022
The most important U.S. midterm elections of all time are here (again). But the game has changed.
#10 - The Economy
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/28/2021
Many politicians praise working-class Americans. But why is so little done to actually help them succeed?
#12 - Climate Change
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/10/2022
We’re being told the planet is headed towards catastrophe if we don’t fix climate change. What will it take for everyone to change their behavior?
#13 - Globalization: Made in America
Season 2 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/21/2022
America’s leaders know what’s plaguing the country: globalization. Thankfully they have a plan—globalization of their own, American-style.
#16 - America’s Incarceration Epidemic
Season 2 - Episode 10 - Aired 3/24/2023
We have a simple philosophy in America: You do the crime, you do the time. But why is the time always a life sentence?
#17 - The Stock Market
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/3/2022
The rise of e-brokers was meant to democratize the stock market—yet inequality in the market has actually worsened. How can it be fixed?
#19 - Election Wrap-Up Special
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/11/2022
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.
