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Back to SearchAOC: A Revolutionary Who Wants To Be Loved
Ryan Grim, author of The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution describes the ascent, tactics, behaviors, and personalities of AOC and other young leftists in Congress. Plus, it's hard to…
Published on 2 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Sludge Train Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we rewind to Tuesday to listen back to Mike’s treatise on New Jersey’s sludge barge, though, for reasons pertaining to the O’Jays song “Love Train,” we are ca…
Published on 2 years ago
Victor Orban And Other Smelly Pigs
Ukraine's EU funding is thwarted by the Hungarian leader whose less Buddah and more Pest, Victor Orban. Plus, Kate Mara and Shawn Bannon drop by to talk about their documentary about hog pollution in…
Published on 2 years ago
Perspectives On War Time Proportionality
Twelve hundred Israelis were killed by Hamas. Perhaps 15,000 Gazans have died as Israel has pursued its attacker, many Hamas fighters among them. But those numbers alone do not help us understand the…
Published on 2 years ago
Hunter In The Crosshairs, Horses In The Back
Chris Molanphy is here to discuss his new book, what is certainly the most authoritative work of non fiction about the Lil Nas X song "Old Town Road," which is also the name of the book. Plus, Hunte…
Published on 2 years ago
Not Graduating College Shortens Your Life
Angus Deaton, the Nobel Prize winner who popularized the notion of "deaths of despair" stops by to discuss his latest book, Economics In America: An Immigrant Economist Explores the Land of Inequali…
Published on 2 years ago
The Trial(s) Of Those Who Killed Elijah McClain
After the 2019 death of Elijah McClain at the hands of Aurora Colorado police, no charges were filed. Then, spurred on by activism over the murder of George Floyd, the Governor of Colorado ordered th…
Published on 2 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Hate Speech On Campus Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, with the presidents of Harvard, M.I.T., and the University of Pennsylvania being hauled in front of the House of Representatives this past week to answer for …
Published on 2 years ago
Untangling The News
Isaac Saul, a former writer for Vox, The Huffington Post, and Time Magazine, was frustrated with news bias and often slanted coverage. So he founded Tangle News, a politics newsletter which summarize…
Published on 2 years ago
Does Donald Trump Still Know How To Talk: An Investigation
In a national referendum, the country of Venezuela just voted to annex half of Guyana, against the will of the Guyanese ... and international law. And every map. While they have no case, and no means…
Published on 2 years ago