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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Is “Mother’s Intuition” Real?
While campus sexual assault is a real and serious…
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Goodness Gracious: Great Bio of Fire
Today on The Gist, Mike comes out with his predic…
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The Uruguayan in Chief
Today on The Gist, Slate’s Jacob Weisberg offers …
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Tap the Holiday Spirit
Clarence Page is knowledgeable, reasonable, and n…
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Orchestral Snoring on the Trans-Siberian Railway
On The Gist, NPR’s David Greene joins us in studi…
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The Duck Face Facial Regime
Today on The Gist, a look at the issues surroundi…
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Learning Little From the Near-Death Experience
Pop-up ads keep telling Mike to test his food sen…
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The Mingus Method for Toilet Training Cats
Starting Wednesday, Billboard will change the way…
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The Thunder-Throat Hope Behind Macy’s Floats
Thanksgiving is for eaters, so we’ve called in an…
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Demons and Spirits
Today on The Gist, Mike begins the show with his …
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The Moist Birdie Debate
How come Scandinavians are always the internation…
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The Buck Starts Here
Today on The Gist, Chuck Todd from NBC’s Meet the…
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The Kitsch of Death
If it bleed, it leads, but today on The Gist we d…
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Afghanistan: 13 Years and Counting
When our feelings about Hamid Karzai cooled, did …
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Don’t Call It a Comeback
Today on The Gist, Chicago’s Joshua Sebastian tel…
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Pumpkin Spice in July? That’s Too Soon
Today on The Gist, Philip Galewitz from Kaiser He…
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To Catch a Professor
Are the recent midterm voters reflective of the A…
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The Sweet Smell of Survival
Today on The Gist, RAND Corp. political scientist…
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Did Smarf Have to Die?
Are we entering an era in which failure will domi…
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Heroes Need Not Apply
Today on The Gist, Margaret Aguirre from the Inte…
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Why WKRP Was Called WKRP
Today on The Gist, Slate’s Jamelle Bouie explains…
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We Know Less Than We Think
Today on The Gist, our in-house vexilologist Ted …
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Friends With (Slate Plus) Benefits
Today on The Gist, a collection of some of our fa…
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Veteran SNL Writer Asks “Who Tooted?”
Today on The Gist, Slate’s Josh Voorhees joins us…
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JFK’s Brain Is Missing
Raise a toast: There are no more dry states left …
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