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Today we're talking about political gambling and, more specifically, about Sean McElwee, who was the founding Executive Director of Data For Progress…
2 years, 6 months ago
The Prettiest Nazi Double-Agent In Tulsa
Jon Ronson, host of the new audible original podcast The Debutante joins us to discuss the case of Carol Howe, a wealthy young woman who fell in love…
2 years, 6 months ago
Siren Song vs Whistleblower At Facebook
Frances Haugen is to Instagram as Jeffrey Wigand is to big tobacco and Edward Snowden is to the NSA. She blew the whistle, exposing them for doing ha…
2 years, 6 months ago
Silvio Berlusconi HUNGA HUNGA Around For 86 Years
Silvio Berlusconi was a character without much of one. He led Italy longer than any prime minister in the post-war period, and he will be missed ... …
2 years, 7 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Zombie Gerrymander Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, in the wake of this past week’s Alabama voting rights decision handed down from SCOTUS, we rewind to Mike’s …
2 years, 7 months ago
Blissed Off
Rainn Wilson is the host of Peacock's The Geography Of Bliss, based on the book of the same name written by Eric Weiner. Like Weiner before him, Wils…
2 years, 7 months ago
Damming Alabama's Crimson Tide
SCOTUS has ruled that Alabama's gerrymander limiting the sway of black voters is a violation of the Voting Rights Act, which, along with some smaller…
2 years, 7 months ago
Abortion, Guns, And Money
SCOTUS isn’t meeting us where we are says Michael Waldman, author of The Supermajority: How the Supreme Court Divided America. Waldman thinks the cur…
2 years, 7 months ago
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Turf
Bruce Schoenfeld, author of Game Of Edges: The Analytics Revolution And The Future Of Professional Sports joins us to discuss the costs of all the s…
2 years, 7 months ago
DereLICHTion Of Duty
Lisa Belkin, author of Genealogy Of A Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night, traces several generations of family to the muzzle…
2 years, 7 months ago