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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Should You Have Your Silver Medal Bronzed?
Mike bites down on a happiness study of bronze and silver medalists. Oh, does it bend.
27 min
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John Dickerson Has a Follow-Up. He’s Willing to...
The host of Face the Nation on CBS has two competing theories about the 2016 presidential election.
28 min
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Republicans Are Using Leeches to Cure Cancer
Stuart Stevens, Romney’s top strategist in 2012, says the GOP’s presidential nominee could make Republicans uncompetitive in national elections for a generation.
19 min
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Playing the Spanish Card
UPenn professor Nelson Flores says, anecdotally, Tim Kaine’s Spanish skills seem to be the biggest hit among white liberals, not Latino voters.
28 min
2180
History’s First Benedict Arnold
Who was the original Benedict Arnold? Why, it’s Benedict Arnold—as you’ll find out from spy novelist and history fanatic Brad Meltzer.
22 min
2181
If It Feeds, It Leads
Facebook’s News Feed is the world’s most powerful purveyor of news. But how it assembles each person’s top stories remains a mystery.
25 min
2182
Is Your Grill Killing You?
Faulty claims go up in smoke once Maria Konnikova weighs in.
22 min
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Jessi Klein Says Women Are Dogs
The head writer for Inside Amy Schumer sorts women into two groups: poodles and wolves. She’s a wolf.
24 min
2184
Diary of a Soon-to-Be-Freed Detainee
Guantánamo inmate Mohamedou Slahi has been cleared for release. Here’s The Gist’s never-aired 2015 interview with Larry Siems, who edited Slahi’s writings from the detention camp.
28 min
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The Little-Known Story of Sabotage in the New Y...
July 30 marks the centenary of a major terrorist attack on the United States. Never heard of it?
19 min
2186
AM Spiel: Hillary Takes the Mic
A Quick & Dirty Dissection of the DNC’s last day.
9 min
2187
Celebrating the Nerd Mentality
The hosts of the Nerdette podcast bring their safe space to The Gist for a round of nerd confessions.
22 min
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AM Spiel: No Room for Gloom
Would that all the country’s problems were as surmountable (and mockable) as Donald Trump.
4 min
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Finally, a Pro-Kidnapping Film
Orange Is the New Black writer Sian Heder says her new film, Tallulah, stemmed from her experience as a nanny for wealthy moms in Los Angeles.
21 min
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AM Spiel: Hillary, Humanized
Finally, it all makes sense: Bill Clinton’s presidency was guided by the Police Academy franchise.
7 min
2191
Optimum Optics
Keep an eye out for the subtle stage-managing of the presidential nominating conventions.
21 min
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AM Spiel: DNC Quick & Dirty Dissection, Day 1
Not a Chachi in the bunch.
5 min
2193
Pity the Peckish Politician
The only thing they have to fear is food itself.
29 min
2194
P.C. Policing the Border
Having a progressive fan base is equal parts exhilarating and maddening for comedian Hari Kondabolu.
21 min
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AM Spiel: Points For Averting Disaster
Did Trump’s RNC speech persuade… anyone?
8 min
2196
“Your Dog Smells My Dog”
Does a dog go crazy on you because he’s picking up the whiff of another canine? Maria Konnikova has the answers.
17 min
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AM Spiel: Cruz Control
Ted Cruz’s cry to “vote your conscience” dealt another distraction to the chaos-loving Trump campaign.
6 min
2198
Cutting Class
In White Trash, author Nancy Isenberg delves into the history of class identities and our efforts to appropriate or shed them.
21 min
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AM Spiel: RNC Rapid Response
What was the convention's Tuesday theme supposed to be, again? Lucifer something?
8 min
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To Catch a Cartel
The Infiltrator is Hollywood’s treatment of the customs agent who burrowed deep inside Pablo Escobar’s money-laundering operation.
25 min