For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and... more
Our third installment of Funny You Should Mention welcomes Sam Jay, former SNL writer, Tom Brady Roaster, host of HBO's Pause with Sam... more
Everyone's getting out of the presidential endorsement business, but The Gist, sensing a market opportunity, is wading in! Plus, Bloomberg's Akshat... more
Joe Biden calls Trump supporters "garbage," only he didn't mean it, probably, though he did say it, literally. Ugh. Pennsylvania... more
Four members of the Gen Z cohort, who will be voting in their first Presidential election cycle next week, talk... more
A joke at a punch rally gets pilloried. And a full-show interview with Musa al-Gharbi on his book We Have Never... more
Each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we... more
To say that comedian Gary Vider's dad was an "unorthodox" parent is to misunderstand the word "unorthodox." His parenting toolbox... more
Fred Kaplan has won a Pulitzer, been nominated for another, and he's covered the national security community for years. So... more
David Greenberg is out with the first biography of Congressman John Lewis, which offers an examination of the highly influential legislator's... more
Christopher Steele's infamous dossier set in motion massive investigations, furious push back, quite nearly an impeachment, and massive turmoil within... more