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The TSA is finally starting to phase out its decades-old shoe removal policy. We take a look back at the post-9/11 panic that made bare feet in airpo…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Poker Face Goes To Interesting Places
Tony Tost, now showrunning Poker Face, reflects on the show's expertly woven mysteries, genre roots, and why women who don’t want to pick up a gun ke…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer
Boston Globe columnist Carine Hajjar and five-time Emmy-winning comedy writer and proprietor of the I Might Be Wrong Substack, Jeff Maurer, join to d…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Loyalty Trap: Inside the 2024 Biden-Harris Collapse
Josh Dawsey joins to discuss 2024: How Donald Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, digging into Kamala Harris’s campaign miss…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers
An interview with Wall Street Journal reporter Josh Dawsey, co-author of 2024: How Trump Retook the White House and the Democrats Lost America, cover…
7 months, 3 weeks ago
The Un "Fudge" America Tour Gets "Fudged" From Within
Zee Cohen-Sanchez, a Bernie Sanders campaign veteran, launched “Un**** America” (we're going with Unfudge America) to counter Charlie Kirk’s influenc…
8 months ago
Cascade PBS: Tapper, Thompson, and Pesca
Today on The Gist we play from Mike Pesca's panel at the Cascade PBS Ideas Festival about the book Original Sin with the Authors Jake Tapper and Alex…
8 months ago
Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer’s Political Past and America’s Appetite for Spectacle
Leon Neyfakh joins the show to discuss Final Thoughts, his new podcast chronicling Jerry Springer’s transformation from charismatic progressive polit…
8 months ago
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 …
8 months 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 Medica…
8 months ago