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.

Daily News
Politics
Arts
1326
Journalists Aren’t Activists
Trying to be both muddies the waters.
28 min
1327
Dave Eggers and the Struggle of Satire
It’s so tricky to get it right.
25 min
1328
The Wasted Debate
There was little focus on policy that mattered.
31 min
1329
Forgiveness by Fiat
Warren’s plan for student debt is bad.
30 min
1330
The Issue With Oscar Noms
Snubbing female directors is bad business.
32 min
1331
Marianne Williamson Teleports Away
Another candidate gone from the primary race.
29 min
1332
The Final Great Jeopardy! Game
This whole line-up won’t happen again.
27 min
1333
What’s John Bolton’s Game?
And what is Congress going to do with him?
26 min
1334
The World’s Worst Extortion Racket
Trump wants Iraq to pay us for an air base we built there.
27 min
1335
Trump’s Iranian Connection
His money isn’t clean at all.
35 min
1336
Starting a War
Trump actions and words are out of alignment.
27 min
1337
Julián Is Through-lian
Is the race really weaker without him?
23 min
1338
The Stories the Gist Skipped in 2019
What didn’t we cover?
27 min
1339
Approving War Crimes?
The hosts of Zero Blog Thirty breakdown the Afghanistan papers, Trump’s recent pardons, and Eddie Gallagher.
29 min
1340
Ignoring Iowa
Trailing in the polls, Julian Castro is trying a peculiar campaign strategy.
26 min
1341
The Democrats Hardly Knew Jeff Van Drew
After the impeachment vote he suddenly switched parties.
26 min
1342
Pontius Pilate, Democrat
Republicans will go to biblical lengths to defend Trump.
32 min
1343
Capitalism Won. Now What?
Economist Branko Milanovic shares how this risky system serves us and how it doesn’t.
35 min
1344
The Youthful Power of Greta Thunberg
She captivates us because she seems so young
30 min
1345
The Kakistocracy Depends on the Cacophony
Noisy distractions are essential to them.
26 min
1346
The Politics of Humor
The Left and the Right are looking for different kinds of laughs.
24 min
1347
Discredited Nincompoop Nunes Is (Slightly) Vind...
He’s still a discredited nincompoop though.
28 min
1348
Expecting History to Judge
How we’ll be remembered shouldn’t be our moral guide.
29 min
1349
Not a Point of Order
Good try though, Republicans.
27 min
1350
The Truth Behind the Steele Dossier
The story about it distracted us from the facts within it.
22 min