Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchBorder Porous? Blame Mayorkas
Jonathan Blitzer author of Everyone Who Is Gone Is Here: The United States, Central America, and the Making of a Crisis, profiled DHS Secretary Aleja…
2 years, 2 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we tackle the important topic of poor-quality, quick-heating food innovations. From the archive, we listen b…
2 years, 2 months ago
Get Used To It
Cass Sunstein joins us to talk about how, without knowing it, we habituate to our circumstances ... regardless of the circumstances. This is both a g…
2 years, 2 months ago
Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders
We're joined by James Swanson author of The Deerfield Massacre: A Surprise Attack, a Forced March, and the Fight for Survival in Early America. Plus…
2 years, 2 months ago
Surge Burgers
Wendy's experiments with dynamic pricing, but generally lethargic french fries. Plus, it was a week from hell for Richard Lewis and Mitch McConnell. …
2 years, 2 months ago
Saddam's Secret Recordings
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 persona…
2 years, 2 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 regrettabl…
2 years, 2 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 an…
2 years, 2 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…
2 years, 2 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. …
2 years, 2 months ago