The Gist
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For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.
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Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Shared S...
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Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"
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Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild
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Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life
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Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"
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Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage
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Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Loss
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Funny You Should Mention: Jena Friedman
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Jamie Denbo: Why I Walked Away From Grey's Anatomy
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Brian Platzer: A Story that Literally Couldn't be Told
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Gina Gershon: "They Treat You Differently With Boobs"
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Eli Lake: "It Could Be An Epic Historic Geopolitical Mitzvah"
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John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider: "Stochastic Self-Censorship"
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James Kimmel Jr. : "Revenge Is Dopamine With a Law Degree"
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Not Even Mad: Austin Berg & Andrew Egger
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C. Thi Nguyen: "The Appearance of Winning"
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Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: "Go Where the Pain Is"
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Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: Saving DEI
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Is Anyone Not A Fan Of Eileen Gu?
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Alex Roarty: "The Status Quo Sucks Right Now"
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Kat and Mike's Museum of Bad Ideas
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Congress, the Potency Problem, and How To!
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Charles Duhigg: "You can mobilize till you're blue in the face."
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The Scalpel And The Chainsaw
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Ben Terris: "Visiting A Parallel Universe"
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Not Even Mad: Joe Nocera & Jonah Goldberg
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Is That BS: Compostable Dog Poop Bags
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Autocracy Watch with Yascha Mounk
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Aaron Magid on King Abdullah, "The Most American King"
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Chris Cillizza on Trump's "Unconstitutional" Election Riff
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Funny You Should Mention: Geoffrey Asmus
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Jonathan Cohen: "Add Friction" to the Super Bowl of Gambling
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Conor Heffernan on Why "Ego Is A Transhistorical Phenomenon"
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The Epstein Files Are a Distraction From… the Epstein Files
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David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"
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Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump
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Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"
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Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams
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"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation
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Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not a...
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Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"
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Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
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Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"
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Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful
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Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos
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Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture
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Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran
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Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger
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Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks
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David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"
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