Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe 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…
2 years, 7 months ago
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
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'…
2 years, 7 months ago
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…
2 years, 7 months ago
The 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 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, 7 months ago