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Back to SearchMichael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Michael Townsend and director Jeremy Workman tell the wild true story of an eight-artist collective that built a hidden home inside Providence Place Mall—part prank, part art project, and a pointed r…
Published on 1 week, 5 days ago
Chris Murphy: “Congress needs to take war powers back.”
Mike revisits his 2019 conversation with Senator Chris Murphy on the AUMF — the two-decade-old law still used to justify U.S. military strikes from Yemen to the Caribbean. Plus, a new strike on a Ven…
Published on 2 weeks ago
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
Lisa Graves joins to discuss Without Precedent: How Chief Justice Roberts and His Accomplices Rewrote the Constitution and Dismantled Our Rights—from court "capture" networks to why she sees the rece…
Published on 2 weeks, 1 day ago
Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez
Hamas hostages, Trump and autocracy, and the strangely quiet shutdown — we tackle all three. Why Trump’s blunt style played in the Middle East, whether “competitive authoritarianism” really fits his …
Published on 2 weeks, 2 days ago
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 Birth of the Modern City, 1986–1990—how a late-'80s crucible of crime, crack, and tabloids minted characters l…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
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 businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interoperability, right-to-repair, and DMCA lock-ins, with F…
Published on 2 weeks, 4 days ago
SCOTUS’s Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck
Mike previews the new Supreme Court term: Colorado’s conversion-therapy ban, transgender athlete cases out of Idaho and West Virginia, a Louisiana Voting Rights Act fight, and a Rastafarian grooming …
Published on 3 weeks ago
Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev
Season 3 of Funny You Should Mention begins with the “Filth Queen” herself Steph Tolev to explore why gross can be smart, how crowd work goes viral, Bill Burr’s boost to her career, and the Canadian …
Published on 3 weeks, 1 day ago
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 how she frames it for a global audience. They dig into sympathy versus credence, terminology like IDF versus…
Published on 3 weeks, 2 days ago
Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror
Today on The Gist. Jake Tapper breaks down the first U.S. criminal trial of a foreign combatant: why prosecutors chose court over Gitmo, and the painstaking sleuthing that turned a shaky confession i…
Published on 3 weeks, 3 days ago