The BEST episodes of The Problem With Jon Stewart season 2
Every episode of The Problem With Jon Stewart season 2, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of 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 affected by different parts of a problem to discuss how we come up with change.
#1 - 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.
#2 - Where Is Our Tax Money Going?
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2022
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
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.
#4 - 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.
#5 - Allies: Friends Without Benefits
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/4/2022
When America needs help from allies, it makes promises. When those allies ask for help, it breaks those promises.
#6 - 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.
#7 - Chaos, Law, and Order
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 3/3/2023
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
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.
#9 - 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?
#10 - 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?
#11 - Searching for Allies
Season 2 - Episode 11 - Aired 3/31/2023
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
Season 2 - Episode 12 - Aired 4/7/2023
A former president getting indicted makes us wonder: Do we have a two-tiered system of justice in the United States?