Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchTrump's 2024 Agenda (Is Not Good)
Miles Taylor, former Department of Homeland Security Chief of Staff during the Trump administration, authored a 2018 New York Times Op-Ed titled "I A…
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Listen Now - Think Twice: Michael Jackson
More than a decade since Michael Jackson’s death, his legacy remains complicated and unresolved. Think Twice: Michael Jackson is an exploration of th…
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BEST OF THE GIST: Climate Communications Breakdown Edition
Today on Best Of The Gist, with heat in the air (almost everywhere) we listen back to Mike’s May 2022 interview with Climate scientist Michael Mann, …
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Bernie Goetz The Fiasco Treatment
Leon Neyfakh, host of Fiasco: Vigilante, is here to talk about the truth of Bernard Goetz, the once-hailed, now hazily recalled subway gunman. Also a…
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The Great Facebook De-Siloing Study
The 2016 election posed questions we still haven't fully answered about our elections, but today's guest, Dartmouth professor and elections researche…
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Give 'Em A Hellish Degree Of Accountability, Harry
Before he was president, Harry Truman was a junior Senator who created a very effective bipartisan committee called the Senate Special Committee to I…
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Conservative Gold
Today on The Gist, we decide to fix healthcare. Amy Finkelstein is a professor of economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and co-auth…
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Sports Slaughter
Mass firings at ESPN, the elimination of the New York Times' entire sports section, Disney talking about huge changes in its sports programming. Spor…
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BEST OF THE GIST: Nuclear Armageddon Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, as the nation heads out in droves to see Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer in cinemas, we listen back to Mike'…
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Summer Flops-Office
Sonny Bunch, host of the Across The Movie Aisle podcast, and culture editor of The Bulwark, explains why all of these supposed blockbusters have bee…
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