Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
Today on the Gist, why cruise ships are essentially floating vessels of exclusively bad news. Then, University of Chicago professor Benjamin...
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20 of 3,011 episodesNot Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss
Today on the Gist, the US intelligence assessment of the Iran blockade, and why the current administration lacks the attention span for a pr...
Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA
Today on the Gist, why ten-dollar words like "instantiation" might sound smart but ultimately fail to connect with an audience. Then, CBS Ne...
Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
Today on the Gist, Robert F. Kennedy's initiative to get Americans off psychiatric medications and the political consequences of elevating f...
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
Today on the Gist, parsing terrible geology analogies about gas prices dropping "like a rock" when they are actually shooting up like a rock...
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
Mike and Ethan Strauss joined to talk on Substack and they talked about Ethan's 4:00 a.m. "rise and grind" writing routine, the frustrating...
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
Today on the Gist, digging into the rhetoric around California's Proposition 36 and examining how advocacy groups frame low-level arrest sta...
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Today on the Gist, assessing the political fallout from the Supreme Court's Callais decision striking down majority minority congressional d...
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Today on the Gist, a look at the recent security incident at the White House Correspondents' Dinner and why Donald Trump's demand for a new...
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Today on the Gist, examining the confusing details and conspiracy theories surrounding the recent Washington press corps assailant. Then, Te...
Richard Lapper: Why Lula Didn't Become a Chavista
Today on the Gist, reflecting on the president's black tie press conference remarks about accepting political violence, and why our media ec...
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
It's the Saturday show! First, we pull a recent appearance: Mike joins Jeff Maurer on the I Might Be Wrong podcast. They debate Mike's recen...
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
Today on the Gist, the US and Iran are supposedly in peace talks, but the real terror might just be the Iranian Navy's choice of "loose ski...
Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur
Today on the Gist, Mike is joined by Sarada Peri, former speechwriter for President Obama, and Sarah Isgur, senior editor at SCOTUSblog and...
Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump
Today on the Gist, looking at the recent Virginia gerrymander vote and what it actually means for democracy when one side plays to win. Then...
Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea
Today on the Gist, exploring the consequences of relocating Afghan allies to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Then, Wall Street Journal Chi...
Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East
Today on the Gist, looking at the dropping price of eggs and the DOJ's antitrust investigation into major producers for market manipulation....
The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone
On this Saturday hybrid episode, Mike's recent guest appearance on Jeremy Hobson’s The Middle , where he pitches smartphone voting to fix lo...
Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"
Today on the Gist, pushing back against the pundit-class panic that American democracy is "on the brink." Then, host of the Chuck Toddcast,...
Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis
Today on the gist, Mike examines the dark psychology of political permanence following the shocking murder-suicide of former Virginia Lieute...
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