Podcast Episodes

The Bane of the Blue Collar

Professor Joan C. Williams joins the show to discuss her book Outclassed: How the Left Lost the Working Class and How to Win Them Back. She explains how the decline of unions, elite cultural codes, a…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Big Beautiful Blunder

The episode kicks off with a withering look at the “Big Beautiful Bill,” a deficit-busting tax cut that showers the rich while hacking away at Medicaid for the poorest Americans. Then, a trip to Minn…

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

Escaping the Nazis. Then Going Back

Daniel Kehlmann joins to discuss The Director, his novel reimagining the life of G.W. Pabst—a brilliant German filmmaker who escaped the Nazis, only to voluntarily return. Kehlmann grapples with how …

Published on 5 months, 3 weeks ago

The Cuomo Special

Today on The Gist, we go back into the vaults to our 2023 interview with Melissa DeRosa about her book on working with Andrew Cuomo, What's Left Unsaid: My Life at the Center of Power, Politics & Cri…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

The Wars We Carry: From Iraq To Port-au-Prince

Jim O’Grady and Thomas Brennan discuss Reveal’s episode on the Marines who fought in Fallujah, exploring how the battle’s brutality and moral injuries still haunt them 20 years later. In the Spiel, H…

Published on 6 months ago

Closed Schools, Closed Minds

David Zweig, author of An Abundance of Caution: American Schools, the Virus, and a Story of Bad Decisions, discusses public health’s blind spots—and when caution became the risk. Plus, Robert F. Kenn…

Published on 6 months ago

The High Point of Mt. Mamdani?

Zohran Mamdani is likely the next mayor of New York, and progressive enthusiasm is peaking—along with demands that you pronounce his name correctly. Andrew Cuomo, a man of few smiles and even fewer s…

Published on 6 months ago

Tehran Target Acquired...Damaged...Destroyed...Debated

Jerusalem Post military correspondent Yonah Jeremy Bob, co-author of Target Tehran: How Israel Is Using Sabotage, Cyberwarfare, Assassination—and Secret Diplomacy—to Stop a Nuclear Iran and Create a …

Published on 6 months ago

Fordow The Mop Tolls

The United States has bombed Iranian nuclear facilities—an extraordinary military action authorized by a President who campaigned against prolonged wars. In today’s interview, national security exper…

Published on 6 months ago

Chuck Todd and Mike Pesca Join On The Chuck ToddCast

Mike's Recent appearance on Chuck Todds Podcast "The Chuck ToddCast"

Want to hear more from Chuck Todd? Check out his YouTube page: www.youtube.com/@TheChuckToddCast Produced by Corey Wara
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Published on 6 months ago