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Back to SearchBEST OF THE GIST: Edmund Fitzgerald Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we remember singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot, who passed away on Monday, by revisiting a 2014 Spiel, in wh…
2 years, 10 months ago
From OKC To January 6th
Jeffrey Toobin, author of Homegrown: Timothy McVeigh and the Rise of Right-Wing Extremism, traces the ideology of right-wing extremism from the 1990s…
2 years, 10 months ago
Justice Comes To The Gist
It's Justice Day on The Gist. Justice for the Proud Boys, Ed Sheeran, and the question of defining justice for a man choked to death on the NYC subwa…
2 years, 10 months ago
Giannis Antetokounmpo's Epic Fail Denial
After an early round loss, NBA great Giannis Antetokounmpo had a much watched, quite heartfelt press conference in which he asserted that there's no …
2 years, 10 months ago
J. K. Rowling And The Prisoner Of Twitter Bans
Megan Phelps-Roper, the host of the podcast The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling, returns to talk about the backlash from the trans community to the po…
2 years, 10 months ago
J. K. Rowling And The Chamber Of Insults
Megan Phelps-Roper, the host of the podcast The Witch Trials of J. K. Rowling, created a podcast weaving her own experience into the task of explori…
2 years, 10 months ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Camaro Joe Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, Joe Biden announced his intention to run for the Presidency again this past week, so we revisit Mike’s analy…
2 years, 10 months ago
On Masks, 300,000 Bangladeshis Can't Be Wrong
Jason Abaluck, an economics professor at the Yale School of Management conducted what was the largest mass masking study to date. He and Mike discuss…
2 years, 10 months ago
The Jury Is Out On The Proud Boys
Roger Parloff, Senior Editor at Lawfare, has been covering the trial of five Proud Boys since it started four months ago. The case is in the jury's h…
2 years, 10 months ago
Some Words Get You Fired
Jena Friedman is a comedian, writer, and "correspondent" who has worked with Letterman, Jon Stewart, and Borat (not an actual person), and her new, f…
2 years, 10 months ago