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Back to SearchThe Steele Dossier Was A Straw Man
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, is an extremely straight s…
2 years, 9 months ago
Comey On Crime, Real And Imagined
James Comey, was the 7th director of the FBI before being fired by President Donald Trump. He is now out with his first work of fiction, a crime-thri…
2 years, 9 months ago
Memorial Day Deliberations
Author Jack Fairweather recalls the bravery of a soldier named Witold Pilecki, a Polish officer actually who did the unthinkable in his book, The Vol…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Summer Of Love Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s Spiel from this past Tuesday, in which he speaks at length about things he has chos…
2 years, 9 months ago
Chewing The Fat
The fat acceptance movement wants to not just de-stigmatize large body size, their adherents argue that the stigma is worse than "obesity"—a word the…
2 years, 9 months ago
Dark Shadows Over SCOTUS
Stephen Vladeck talks Supreme Court legitimacy as well as the so called "Shadow Docket," which is the name of his book subtitled "How the Supreme Cou…
2 years, 9 months ago
Florida Man Tweets, Tangles With NAACP
The nation's leading civil rights group issues a proclamation to avoid a large and oft-visited state; we ponder if the advisory is warranted. And the…
2 years, 9 months ago
A Roosevelt Redefines America
Law Professor Kermit Roosevelt, author of The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story, is worried about the declining stature of the U…
2 years, 9 months ago
The Best Advice If You Find Yourself In War
The Arab League has welcomed back Bashar Al-Assad to the organization right as Volodymyr Zelensky pays that organization a visit. Is there a lesson t…
2 years, 9 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Baby Bonds Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s interview with Ohio State University professor Darrick Hamilton, creator of the “Ba…
2 years, 9 months ago