The Gist
For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.
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Your Brain on Bandwidth Poverty
Today on The Gist, as rockets rain from Gaza, Isr…
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Why Is Mike Pesca So Happy?
Today on The Gist, political analyst Jonah Blank …
21 min
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David Plotz Is Out, Panda Blogs Are In
Today at Slate, we announced a changing of the gu…
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Her Husband’s Stupid Record Collection
Is not visiting the U.S.-Mexico border President …
25 min
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This Guy Killed Hitler. All He Wants Is a Thank...
Today on the show, writer Mike Sacks explains how…
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Inside the Principal’s Office
For what was Mike’s most enjoyable visit to the p…
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Warren G. Harding in Love
Today on The Gist we discuss a new cache of steam…
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Today, It’s a Pot-Cast
As Washington State’s recreational marijuana law …
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Emotions Are Contagious, but Probably Not on Fa...
On the 75th anniversary of Lou Gehrig’s famous fa…
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Philly, in Black and White
Today on The Gist, Mike talks with Alice Goffman,…
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What Happens on Amish Spring Break Stays in Flo...
As Alan Mulally packs up his desk, Bryce Hoffman …
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Taking (a Fake) One for the Team
An obscure U.S. government agency called the Expo…
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The Diplomat Who F--ked Up
Polish Foreign Minister Radoslaw Sikorski was sec…
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I Believe That We Will Win
On today’s Gist, the stock market’s volatility, o…
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Scalia Just Wants to Have Fun
Today on The Gist, judicial biographer Bruce Alle…
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Hey U.N. Secretary-General … You Got Served!
Can you sue the United Nations over a tragic chol…
25 min
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Is Dick Cheney the Least Qualified Iraq Expert ...
Today on The Gist, song lyrics made literal. Wits…
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The Sinister Business of Advertising to Kids
Today’s Gist is a special New Haven hotel room di…
27 min
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Does the Minimum Wage Create or Kill Jobs?
Today on the Gist, political writer Harry Enten f…
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Should We Ditch Internet Comments?
Do nasty comments affect how readers perceive an …
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Dirty Laundry? There’s an App for That
On today’s The Gist, Mike and New York magazine’s…
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Should Ruth Bader Ginsburg Just Quit Already?
With many well-respected liberal thinkers pressur…
26 min
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Blame Salt-n-Pepa for American Glottal Stop
Today on The Gist, why Chipotle has become an imp…
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Polls Say the Darndest Things
Forces for the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, o…
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13 Days a Beatle
For the first two weeks of June 1964, Jimmy Nicol…
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