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With 151 days until the Iowa Caucuses, we're joined by Amy Walter, Publisher and Editor-in-Chief of the Cook Political Report with Amy Walter and the…
2 years, 8 months ago
A Georgia Defense Lawyer Walks Us Through The Charges
Noah Pines, a top Atlanta-based litigator, assesses the strength of Fani Willis's indictment of Donald Trump and eighteen others, with special attent…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Science Of Covid Misdirection
Donald G. McNeil Jr., former NY Times Pulitzer Prize winning science and health reporter specializing in plagues, discusses the leading scientists wh…
2 years, 8 months ago
African Prisons Too Crowded For Ex-Presidents
Horror movies are one of those invisible dividing lines of society. You either watch them, or you don’t. Alison Leiby, co-host of Ruined, a podcast …
2 years, 8 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Population and Bathrooms Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2020 roundtable discussion with journalists Richard Kreitner and Matthew Yglesias a…
2 years, 8 months ago
Jumping The Gungan
Jar Jar Binks—meant to be a lovable, floppy-eared character in a Star Wars prequel—brought the heat of both of Tatooine’s suns unto the movie, the ac…
2 years, 8 months ago
Dead Drops, Cops, And Special Ops: The Novels Of Brad Thor
Dead Fall is the 23rd novel from the mind of Brad Thor. In it, an American performs an operation inside of Ukraine, and, for reasons of diplomatic s…
2 years, 8 months ago
The Bathrooms Of Loudoun County
Two years hence, a New York Times Magazine story lays out, in more detail, what really happened when a boy in a skirt assaulted a girl in the girls b…
2 years, 8 months ago
A Truly Deluded Trump Is A Truly Not Guilty Trump
New York Times Opinion writer David French makes the case that Jack Smith will have to prove that Donald Trump really did know he lost the election. …
2 years, 8 months ago
Selling Nuclear Secrets To The Soviets
Steve James, the documentary filmmaker behind Hoop Dreams is out with The Compassionate Spy, which tells the story of a young scientist named Ted Ha…
2 years, 8 months ago