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.
1276
The Problem With “White Supremacy”
We all know what’s wrong with the thing itself. Here’s what’s wrong with the term.
30 min
1277
Are Attention Spans Shrinking?
Do they even exist?
25 min
1278
Who’s the Filibuster For?
Fresh from the Iowa State Fair, The Gist runs through the Democratic candidates’ take on filibuster reform.
32 min
1279
How to Rob a Bank, And Be Funny While You’re at It
Charles Duhigg’s new podcast doles out advice for common (and not so common) problems.
24 min
1280
Politics Is a Circus
Turns out America owes a lot to the big tent.
27 min
1281
Turning Out the 2020 Voter
Can Democrats bring former Trump voters back to their side next year, and should they even bother?
30 min
1282
Trade War Rumblings? We’re Already In One.
But is China really a currency manipulator, or is Steven Mnuchin going too far?
30 min
1283
There Are the “Maybe” Factors, and Then There’s...
More than white supremacy, than mental illness, and than 8chan, it’s the powerful rifles abundant in the U.S. that are the problem.
25 min
1284
The Case of “The Case of Al Franken”
Debating the former senator’s ouster, and the New Yorker article that came to his defense.
35 min
1285
How Fantastic Negrito Started From Scratch
His debut album flopped, he got into a car crash-induced coma, and he sold his instruments. Then Fantastic Negrito started winning Grammys.
34 min
1286
Chuck Klosterman and the Ivory Tower
“There’s a lot of things that I had never considered having a meaning that involved hipness or class.”
30 min
1287
The Consultants of Yore Weigh in on 2020
Donald Trump has taken electoral politics into unmarked territory—but the political consultants of past campaigns are still worth hearing out.
32 min
1288
How the GOP Got Here
Donald Trump hasn’t just sent the Democratic Party into disarray. He’s done it for the Republicans, too.
28 min
1289
The Lie of Live PD
It’s not a documentary, it’s a reality show.
39 min
1290
Mueller Is No Showman
It will take a lot more than the jaded 74-year-old’s testimony to spur Congress into impeachment proceedings.
25 min
1291
How to Talk About Addiction
Chris Herren’s NBA career ended because of substance abuse. Now he’s asking thousands of students to make better choices.
27 min
1292
Robert Mueller’s Return
In Congress on Wednesday, it will be Mueller time again… with all the disappointment that entails.
30 min
1293
The Moon Landing’s Glory Has Faded
Apollo 11 had the eyes of the world in 1969. Fifty years later, why has its anniversary gotten little attention?
33 min
1294
How Michael Bennet Wants to Fix America
Can a relative centrist go the distance?
29 min
1295
The EPA Is Losing Its Mandate
A former head of the Environmental Protection Agency on how Trump is eroding its authority—on purpose.
29 min
1296
Trump Will Lose in 2020
That’s according to a new forecasting model that puts demographics over polling numbers—and was spot-on in 2018.
28 min
1297
Bring Back Late-Night Cruelty
Why our late-night shows need to put their teeth back in.
30 min
1298
Acosta Is Out
And Trump definitely didn’t make him quit his job.
35 min
1299
The CIA’s Bad Ideas
A lot of them involved animals.
27 min
1300
Soccer’s Pay Parity Problem
Most arguments for equal pay are weak. The women still deserve it.
35 min