John Oliver

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John Oliver attempts to demystify youth transgender rights

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John Oliver explains the serious problem with 'Law & Order'

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John Oliver marries a cabbage, for art

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John Oliver explains monkeypox

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John Oliver explains the causes and dire effects of the Western U.S. water crisis

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John Oliver details the problem with putting police in schools

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John Oliver has some complaints about Subway, the sandwich chain

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John Oliver explains electric utilities and why they're charging you so much

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John Oliver slams imminent death of Roe v. Wade, explains abortion rights

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John Oliver explores tragic costs of environmental racism

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John Oliver dissects 1997's Air Bud and its selective flouting of the rules

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John Oliver explains what really happens in police interrogations

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John Oliver gets 'creepy' to get Congress to pass online privacy laws

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John Oliver explains trucking industry, says there's not really driver shortage

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John Oliver argues we should help drug users live, not let them die

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John Oliver explains why so few innocent people win exoneration

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John Oliver: U.S. sex work laws 'confusing and counterproductive'

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John Oliver uncorks a long-simmering rant about The Da Vinci Code

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John Oliver has some ideas about how to make snack brands great again

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John Oliver explains the power grid and how to upgrade it for clean energy

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John Oliver wants to redirect your alarmism about homelessness

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John Oliver explains America's 'deeply weird' strategic ambiguity about Taiwan

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John Oliver tackles misinformation in immigrant communities, from AT&T

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John Oliver explains why Teflon and other PFAS are bad

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John Oliver says new GOP voting laws 'absolutely make it harder to vote'

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John Oliver tackles Belarus, proposes a way to 'annoy the s--t' out of its president

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John Oliver autopsies America's long, predictable Afghanistan failure

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John Oliver wants you to take ransomware seriously, seriously

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John Oliver rages against the Sackler family and their OxyContin settlement

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John Oliver explains why ambulances cost so much in the U.S.

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John Oliver praises a Danish children's TV show about a man with huge genitalia

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John Oliver creates his own health care sharing ministry

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John Oliver explains the horrors of PACE home renovation loans

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John Oliver rebukes Texas for 'cooking prisoners to death'

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John Oliver dismantles the Asian American 'model minority myth'