Podcast Episodes

Color Blindness: Bad for Traffic Signals, Good For Countries?

Coleman Hughes, author of The End of Race Politics: Arguments for a Colorblind America stops by to add a diversity of thought in his inclusion on DEI week. Plus, our country seems intent on getting …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Does DEI Work?

All week, we'll be taking a deep dive into DEI—Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion—which has come under attack from conservatives. A great defense would be to point to the many demonstrable successes of…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: Death Penalty Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2019 interview with Anthony Ray Hinton, who was wrongfully convicted for the murder of two teenagers in Alabama in 1985. After 30 yea…

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Who Are The Night Owls?

Political experts and podcast partners in the Night Owls Podcast, Joe Klein and John Ellis analyze the political pitfalls of Democrats in the next election and contrast those with the co-situational …

Published on 1 year, 10 months ago

Bland Tacos, Tap Water, And Joe Biden

Luppe Luppen is a lawyer who is also the Twitter pugilist @nycsouthpaw. He is now the co-author of a new book, The Truce: Progressives, Centrists, and the future of the Democratic Party. Plus, a beh…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Innovation, Alabama-Style

On January 25th, Kenneth Eugene Smith was the first American executed by nitrogen hypoxia. Observers were disturbed by the process of Smith's final five minutes on Earth, but officials of the state o…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos

Jeremy Hobson has been hosting The Middle, a call-in public radio program. That sounds scintillating enough, but it gets even spicier when you learn that the show is dedicated to non-extremism. As mu…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Paging Doctor Death

We're joined by the show runner of the Peacock series Dr. Death, Ashley Michel Hoban, to discuss why we are drawn to doctors who first do some harm. Lots of it in fact.  Plus, Nikki Haley just has no…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

Introducing American Scandal: Police Corruption in Baltimore

In the spring of 2017, a police corruption scandal rocked the city of Baltimore. And at the heart of it was an elite undercover unit called the Gun Trace Task Force.

American Scandal is a podcast fr…

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago

BEST OF THE GIST: Penguin Poop Edition

In this installment of Best Of The Gist, upon hearing the news that researchers had discovered four previously unknown colonies of emperor penguins with the help of satellite imagery, we give to you …

Published on 1 year, 11 months ago