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Steve Coll, author of The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq, worked to declassify the personal recordings of Sadam Hussein. They proved to be a…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
When An Insurmountable Obstacle Meets A Hubristic Work Force
Joe Biden's foreign policy team has mixed success, or some "non-failures," depending on if you regard the Afghanistan withdrawal plan as a regrettable misstep or bungled necessity. Alexander Ward is …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad
Wondery’s podcast American History Tellers takes you to the events, times and people that shaped America and Americans — our values, our struggles and our dreams.
In the early 1800s, slavery rapidly …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Women In Film
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with the Oscars fast approaching, we listen back to Mike’s Thursday Spiel in which he tries to figure out if 2023 was a great or terrible year for women in Ho…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
So Close To China, They Can Hear The Music
Kinmen Islands is a part of Taiwan, but it's only five miles from China, the main Island of Taiwan laying over 100 miles across the Taiwan Straight. S. Leo Chiang is the director of the Oscar-nominat…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Not a Fan of Fani
Andrew Fleischman is an Atlanta-based litigator, and he joins us to discuss the Fani Willis Trial and which way he thinks Judge McAfee will lean in his decision. Plus, in China monkeys are hard to co…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Meet Your Raconteur Guide
Even after Tucker Carlson issued his double coupon day dasvidaniya, the ghost of Navalny trails him. Plus, Putin arrests a U.S. ballerina for donating $51 to Ukraine. And we speak with Charles Duhigg…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
Your Enemy's Victory Speech
William Ury, author of Possible: How We Survive (and Thrive) in an Age of Conflict has worked on peace negotiations in Norther Ireland, South Africa, and Colombia joins us to share some lessons and …
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST - Presidents Day
We are off on this Holiday, but we wanted to share two interviews from the archive. One is from 2019 with founding CEO of C-SPAN Brian Lamb and Co-CEO Susan Swain are here to discuss their new book T…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Tunnel Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s December 6, 2023 interview with Aric Toler about the storied Hamas tunnel network, which, depending on where you get your news, is ei…
Published on 1 year, 10 months ago