The world may be on the brink of another Cold War – but don’t worry, Jon Stewart went to Europe in Season 2 to find out who will be on America’s team. It went... great.
It’s wild that – thanks to the power of corporate lobbyists – the government hasn’t been able to negotiate the price of prescription drugs directly with pharmaceutical companies until now. Last season, Jon Stewart sat down with Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro to talk about it.
“Republicans are the first to pounce on crime spikes while never acknowledging that it’s their dismantling of reasonable gun regulation that’s enabled the fucking thing in the first place.” Jon Stewart back in Season 2 on why the right’s rhetoric on gun is so cynical.
Some of America’s biggest industries – including health care and pharma – wouldn’t exist without government subsidies, but what are taxpayers getting in return? We investigated in our Taxes episode in Season 2.
“For the last half century, our economic policy has just been a flow chart where no matter what the input is, the answer is the worker must pay the price.” - Jon Stewart took on America’s approach to fighting inflation back in Season 2.
A new Pediatrics study says gun deaths among children are at an all-time high. In Season 2, Jon Stewart spoke with Okla. State Sen. Nathan Dahm on why he supports banning drag show readings to protect children but opposes regulating guns.
It’s been 2 years since the U.S. pulled out of Afghanistan. Tens of thousands of Afghans who served with us there are still trying desperately to escape Taliban persecution and find the safety we promised them. It's time to pass the Afghan Adjustment Act.
“Trump is not fighting for you. You are his human shields, and you always have been.” – Jon Stewart, from our season finale in April, on the way Trump’s supporters try to turn him into a freedom-fighting folk hero.
“This is going to cause a mass migration crisis.” - Jon Stewart talked to David Wallace-Wells last year about just how much global instability we can expect climate change to unleash by 2050.
“It’s a rigged game.” - Jon Stewart spoke to Strict Scrutiny on the podcast last June about what the Supreme Court has done to protect minority rule. It’s happening at the state level too – like in Ohio where people are voting today on Issue 1, which would make it more difficult to protect abortion rights in the state constitution this fall.
