Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPlestia 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 sym…
1 year 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 pain…
1 year ago
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 Better Health: How to Save Millions of Lives—Including Your…
1 year ago
Steven Pinker: “Common Knowledge Changes Everything”
Steven Pinker joins to discuss his new book, When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows: Common Knowledge and the Mysteries of Money, Power, and Everyda…
1 year ago
Diane Foley on America’s Hostage Blind Spot
Diane Foley, founder of the Foley Foundation and mother of slain journalist James Foley, joins Mike to discuss America’s fragmented hostage-recovery …
1 year ago
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, flaunted elite wealth, and ubiquitous VPNs—toppled Nepal’s…
1 year ago
Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro
Free speech under heat: the ACLU’s Ben Wizner and the Manhattan Institute’s Ilya Shapiro square off (and sometimes align) on the “ethos” of the First…
1 year ago
Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time
Yaakov Katz co-author with Amir Bohbot, of While Israel Slept: How Hamas Surprised the Most Powerful Military in the Middle East, traces the failures…
1 year ago
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 concentrating on Knox’s perspective while still showing how ot…
1 year, 1 month ago
Amanda Knox — “You don’t have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody.”
Knox recounts confronting prosecutor Giuliano Mignini and explores how certainty, incentive structures, and “alternate realities” turned her story in…
1 year, 1 month ago