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Back to SearchThe Thin Bleu Line
In France, riots over police killings, which are a small fraction of those in the U.S. Guess why our numbers are higher? Mike will explain. We are al…
2 years, 5 months ago
A Veritable Vibes-Session Cessation
We weren't having a "recession," we were having (we were told) a "vibes-session." Mike wishes we weren't told that. It added nothing. Plus, a looming…
2 years, 5 months ago
Shipwrecks And Fact Checks
David Grann, best-selling author of Killers of the Flower Moon and Lost City of Z is out with another tale where humans are pushed to the extreme, an…
2 years, 5 months ago
Prigozhin Rebellion Exposes Putin's House Of Cards
Vladimir Putin's recent blow up with Wagner frontman Yevgeny Prigozhin took the world by surprise, but it didn't really take the Russia experts of th…
2 years, 5 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: NATO Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we return to March 2017 to listen back to Mike’s interview with The Atlantic staff writer and U.S. Naval War…
2 years, 5 months ago
They Got A Monster
The notorious Baltimore Police unit dramatized in the HBO Series We Own This City, is examined in a new documentary I Got a Monster that veers away …
2 years, 5 months ago
Toxic Masculinity And The Autocado
Striking writers have deprived Americans of late-night weather-related jokes, evil characters, and pat narrative. Soon-to-strike UPS drivers will dep…
2 years, 5 months ago
Welcome Back To McWhorter's Quarters
John McWhorter is a professor of linguistics at Columbia University, a New York Times columnist, and host of the Lexicon Valley podcast. He's back f…
2 years, 5 months ago
Jake Tapper And Evel's Hog
CNN's Jake Tapper is out with his third thriller. This one is set when Evel Knievel jumped gorges, Elvis was being mourned, and the Son Of Sam stalke…
2 years, 6 months ago
Muster The Cluster
The U.S. is supplying cluster munitions to Ukraine, even though many countries (though not our own, and none currently being invaded) have signed a t…
2 years, 6 months ago