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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.

#1000

Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”

Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade... more

Yesterday

23 MINS

23:26

Yesterday

#999

Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play

Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accompli... more

Yesterday

39 MINS

39:17

Yesterday

#998

Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez

Hamas hostages, Trump and autocracy, and the strangely quiet shutdown — we tackle all thre... more

16 Oct 2025

1 HR 06 MINS

1:06:06

16 Oct 2025

#997

Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country

Mahler walks us through The Gods of New York: Egotists, Idealists, Opportunists, and the B... more

15 Oct 2025

48 MINS

48:14

15 Oct 2025

#996

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap busi... more

14 Oct 2025

35 MINS

35:52

14 Oct 2025

#995

SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck

Mike previews the new Supreme Court term: Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban, transgender a... more

11 Oct 2025

35 MINS

35:22

11 Oct 2025

#994

Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev

Season 3 of Funny You Should Mention begins with the “Filth Queen” herself Steph Tolev to ... more

10 Oct 2025

1 HR 07 MINS

1:07:34

10 Oct 2025

#993

Plestia Alaqad: “The Eyes of Gaza,” Witness and Journalist

Today on the Gist, a tough conversation with Plestia Alaqad about what she saw in Gaza and... more

09 Oct 2025

51 MINS

51:48

09 Oct 2025

#992

Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror

Today on The Gist. Jake Tapper breaks down the first U.S. criminal trial of a foreign comb... more

08 Oct 2025

35 MINS

35:55

08 Oct 2025

#991

Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: “'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea.”

The former CDC director lays out his “See, Believe, Create” playbook from The Formula for ... more

07 Oct 2025

37 MINS

37:35

07 Oct 2025

#990

Steven Pinker: “Common Knowledge Changes Everything”

Steven Pinker joins to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Comm... more

06 Oct 2025

37 MINS

37:39

06 Oct 2025

#989

Diane Foley on America’s Hostage Blind Spot

Diane Foley, founder of the Foley Foundation and mother of slain journalist James Foley, j... more

04 Oct 2025

29 MINS

29:12

04 Oct 2025

#988

Jonah Blank: “Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly” in Nepal

South Asia expert Jonah Blank explains how a Gen-Z–driven uprising—fueled by social media,... more

03 Oct 2025

34 MINS

34:51

03 Oct 2025

#987

Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro

Free speech under heat: the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro s... more

02 Oct 2025

1 HR 02 MINS

1:02:34

02 Oct 2025

#986

Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

Yaakov Katz co-author with Amir Bohbot, of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Mos... more

01 Oct 2025

44 MINS

44:58

01 Oct 2025

#985

KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

We talk with KJ Steinberg, showrunner of Hulu’s The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox, about con... more

30 Sep 2025

37 MINS

37:30

30 Sep 2025

#984

Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”

Knox recounts confronting prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and explores how certainty, incentiv... more

29 Sep 2025

33 MINS

33:31

29 Sep 2025

#983

Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate

Listen to the full debate on Open to Debate’s podcast channel or watch it on YouTube: [ht... more

27 Sep 2025

41 MINS

41:51

27 Sep 2025

#982

Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”

We talk with North Carolina State political scientist Andrew J. Taylor about his new book,... more

26 Sep 2025

31 MINS

31:58

26 Sep 2025

#981

Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”

Yale Law’s Justin Driver argues that SFFA v. Harvard/UNC broke with precedent and embraced... more

25 Sep 2025

41 MINS

41:38

25 Sep 2025

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#1000

Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”

#999

Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play

#998

Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez

#997

Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country

#996

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

#995

SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck

#994

Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev

#993

Plestia Alaqad: “The Eyes of Gaza,” Witness and Journalist

#992

Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror

#991

Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: “'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea.”

#990

Steven Pinker: “Common Knowledge Changes Everything”

#989

Diane Foley on America’s Hostage Blind Spot

#988

Jonah Blank: “Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly” in Nepal

#987

Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro

#986

Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time

#985

KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox

#984

Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”

#983

Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate

#982

Andrew J. Taylor: “Blue-Collar Voters Don’t Want Blue-Collar Politicians”

#981

Justin Driver: “The Fall of Affirmative Action”