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Back to SearchBEST 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 …
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years 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…
3 years ago
BEST OF THE GIST: Sacramento Nazi Edition
In this installment of Best Of The Gist, we listen back to Mike’s 2022 interview with iconic actor Stephen Root, whose many (many) credits include HB…
3 years ago
Snakes On The Vain
TC Boyle’s new novel, Blue Skies, is about a twenty-something social media influencer who brings Burmese pythons into the picture. What can go wrong?…
3 years ago
Who Doesn't Loathe A Sacramento Nazi? (But Then What)
Michael Isikoff, author of Russian Roulette: The Inside Story of Putin's War on America and the Election of Donald Trump, returns to dig further int…
3 years ago
The 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…
3 years ago