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Louise Story is here to discuss her new book, Fifteen Cents On The Dollar: How Americans Made the Black-White Wealth Gap. Plus Israel and Hezbollah fighting intensifies and Donald Trump gets us to as…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Reason Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we bring you a recent episode of The Reason Interview With Nick Gillespie, on which Mike Pesca was the guest. It’s an hour of Nick and Mike talking quite a b…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Naked Came The Lieutenant Governor
It wasn't only North Carolina Senate candidate Mark Robinson's political ambitions that were naked, it was his forum for web posting—the Nude Africa website, where he declared himself a "Black Nazi,"…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Today a wide-ranging interview with Maryland Governor Wes Moore. We talk about the bipartisan blame for America's housing policy, why Baltimore's murder rate is drastically declining, and his studied…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Phoning In The Election
We do everything on the phone, so why not vote? It's much more secure than you think, says Bradley Tusk, author of Vote With Your Phone: Why Mobile Voting Is Our Final Shot At Saving Democracy. Plus,…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
How A Judge Decides Who Gets A Second Chance
We're joined once more by sitting federal judge Frederic Block to discuss his thought process in sentencing and forgiving. His new book is A Second Chance: A Federal Judge Decides Who Deserves It. Pl…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Television Doesn't Understand Why People Watch TV
The Emmy's are a tradition wherein excellence in television is honored by a long display of inartful television. Plus, Elon Musk is carelessly worsening the atmosphere around the second assassination…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Dan Savage Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with the permission of the fine folks at the Savage Lovecast, we will listen to Mike being interviewed by Dan Savage of the trés popular Savage Lovecast, for …
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
The Missiles That Pissed Off Putin
The UK's Keir Starmer and President Joe Biden are apparently arming the Ukrainians in a way that Vladimir Putin does not approve of. Plus, veteran political journalist Joe Klein, of the Sanity Clause…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Defaming DiResta For Defining Disinformation
As the technical research manager at Stanford Internet Observatory, Renée DiResta studied disinformation and alerted social media companies to violations of their own rules. This opened her up to cha…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago