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Back to SearchBernie Goetz The Fiasco Treatment
Leon Neyfakh, host of Fiasco: Vigilante, is here to talk about the truth of Bernard Goetz, the once-hailed, now hazily recalled subway gunman. Also a…
3 years, 2 months ago
The 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 2 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'…
3 years, 2 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 3 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…
3 years, 3 months ago