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Back to SearchWhat Does Jay Bhattacharya Want To Do With The NIH?
Jay Bhattacharya, the Stanford professor who advocated for widespread openings during the pandemic, months before there was a vaccine, has become a b…
1 year, 3 months ago
Parks And Rec, In Effect
Jim O'Heir, who played Jerry (or was it Larry?) on 121 episodes of TV's Parks And Recreation, is out with a new book, Welcome to Pawnee: Stories of F…
1 year, 3 months ago
A Traffic Jam Of Political Malfeasance
NY Governor Kathy Hochul was in favor of congestion pricing before she was against it, now she's for it again. She's in a race against an incoming ad…
1 year, 3 months ago
Ol' Doc Flugelhorn'll Heal You Right Up
Music can heal. This explains the song "You dropped a balm on me". Dan Levitin's new book, I Heard There Was a Secret Chord: Music as Medicine, sells…
1 year, 3 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: TCB Edition
Normally, each weekend on Best Of The Gist, we listen back to an archival Gist segment from the past, then we replay something from the past week, bu…
1 year, 3 months ago
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 4 Django Gold
Django Gold is a stand-up comedian, a former writer for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert, and a veteran of The Onion. In his stand-up special "Bag …
1 year, 3 months ago
Gaetz Rates As Latest Basket Case
The nomination of Matt Gaetz to be United States Attorney General is shocking, confusing, and tumultuous, but not necessarily a non-starter. Plus, th…
1 year, 3 months ago
Hegseth In Over His Head
Peter Hegseth is Donald Trump's nominee to be Secretary of Defense. It's an impossible job, one that he can't possibly fulfill, and maybe that's the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Lock Em Up: from Threat to Truth
Ben Wittes, Editor-in-Chief of Lawfare, discusses what Trump can actually do and where the protections are for those he's threatened to criminally pr…
1 year, 4 months ago
The Chicken Beer And Video Game Phase
Revelations from campaigns that could have been shared a while ago are being unearthed now. It turns out CNN knew Kamala Harris wasn't inspiring Penn…
1 year, 4 months ago