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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The Quiet Dignity of Bears
On the day when the Internet turns to llamas, we …
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Get Happier
Today on The Gist, Gretchen Rubin explains what s…
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Is “Illegal Immigrant” Offensive, Accurate or B...
With 100 inches of snow landing on Boston this wi…
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ISIS’s Self-Destruct Button
Today on The Gist, journalist Graeme Wood offers …
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The Cuddle Cure
The Nasdaq Composite Index is closing in on an al…
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Targeted by Putin
Today on The Gist, Bill Browder tells the story o…
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Selma’s Fictional LBJ
Today on The Gist, ponds face cream, plus water, …
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What Cubans and Mormons Have in Common
Lance Armstrong has been ordered to pay $10 milli…
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The Read Meets the Spiel
Today on The Gist, Mike Pesca is joined by Kid Fu…
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Beyond Death Cults and Nihilism
Today on The Gist, Max Abrahms from Northeastern …
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Extra: Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka Fantastic Negrito
A past Gist guest was recently named the winner o…
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He Wanted to Be a Millionaire
How do you own your failures? Today on The Gist, …
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Kick-Ass Commando Weathermen
Is the White House’s new National Security Strate…
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Hit the Road, Union Jack
Why is international justice so slow and scleroti…
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Letter-Perfect Solution
Today on The Gist, a conversation about fetal hom…
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The Most Interesting Man We Know
Today on The Gist, we might have audio from Brian…
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Melody As Smoking Gun
Are headlines about “three-parent babies” far-fet…
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North Korea’s Former Poet Laureate
Today on The Gist, a look at how propaganda thriv…
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The Detox Detox
Today on The Gist, political analyst Jonah Blank …
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The One-Man Beautification Plan
Today on The Gist: a visual avenger for the beaut…
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Caffeine: Shot by Shot
Fellow dads Mike Pesca and Adam Davidson of NPR a…
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The Passion of the Christie
Do Chris Christie’s outbursts make him impossible…
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Microsoft’s Imperfect 10
Does the GOP’s 2016 candidate need to figurativel…
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The Five-Second Story
How exactly should the United States go about cou…
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Fraunces Tavern Bombing
Before the Revolutionary War, the tavern founded …
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