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The Gist — 3015 episodes
Franklin Foer: Did the Press Miss Biden's Decline?
Franklin Foer: Chronicling The Purged
David Epstein: Thinking Inside the Box
Kevin Williamson: The Psychotic State of Texas Politics
Finding Political Kryptonite with Paula Poundstone
Benjamin Saltzman: The Art of Turning Away
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Ben Dreyfuss
Jonathan Vigliotti: The Olympic Rush to Rebuild LA
Joseph Moore: Negotiating With Drug Dealers for Real Estate Success
Joseph Moore: The Despair Industrial Complex
Ethan Strauss: Great Writers, Bad Thinkers, and the Death of the Sports Gamer
Liz Hoffman: Why We Are So Pessimistic About a Resilient Economy
Liz Hoffman: Will AI Trigger a Jobless Food Fight?
Suzy Hansen: How The Syrian War Radicalized Erdoğan
Ted Dintersmith: The Life-Changing Math Schools Ignore
Mike Pesca Might Be Wrong & The Art of Korean Rock Throwing
Maya Kornberg on How Congress Got Stuck
Not Even Mad: Sarada Peri & Sarah Isgur
Jennifer Shahade on the Grandmaster of Intermezzos: Donald Trump
Jonathan Cheng on the Realities of Uncovering North Korea
Jonathan Cheng on When Pyongyang Was the Jerusalem of the East
The Middle - Making the case for Voting by Phone
Chuck Todd: Why Politicians Are "The Weirdos"
Sarah Isgur: Why Forum Shopping is a Bigger Threat Than the Ethics Crisis
Sarah Isgur: "Stop Blaming the Court and Start Blaming Congress"
Jacob Mchangama On The "Four Hateful Men" Who Saved Free Speech
Jacob Mchangama On "Elite Panic"
Across The Movie Aisle: Mike Pesca's "***hole Tracker" Enters The Pitt
Matt Yglesias & Richard Kreitner: A Billion Americans vs. Breaking It Up
Not Even Mad: John Ganz & Nick Gillespie
Freddie DeBoer and Devon Price on the "Identity Trap" of Neurodiversity
Noam Scheiber and the "Vinyl Record" Phase of American Unions
Noam Scheiber on the "Class Confidence" of the Overqualified
Uncertain Things: "Joy as an Act of Resistance is the Dumbest Slogan of the Woke Era"
Funny You Should Mention: Raanan Hershberg
Are You There God? It’s Me, Mark Oppenheimer
Tyler Goodspeed: Why "Pattern-Seeking Mammals" Blame Bankers Instead of Locusts
Why Brazil Stopped Its Bolsonaro and We Didn't Stop Ours
Zack Beauchamp: "You Kind of Have to Pick a Lane to Be an Effective Autocrat"
Magic Shops, $200 Million Horse Ads, and the Ghost of Nibbles the Goat
Julia Minson: You're Probably 50% Wrong
Not Even Mad: Yascha Mounk & Colin Cole
Ben Ritz on Slopulism and the Democrats' 2024 Lesson
Larry Charles: "I Am Willing To Die To Get This Scene"
Larry Charles: "I Finally Had to Fire the Kid"
The Myth of the Iranian Moderate & The "Undecided" War
Derrick Stroup: "I Sound Like a Bowl of Gravy and You Sound Like a Traffic Cone"
Is That Bulls*it: Does The Body Keep the Score - in Your Hips
Molly Worthen: "Charisma Is a Tool of the Weak"
Mickey Bergman: "Even Maduro Has a Soft Spot"
Mickey Bergman: The Psychology of the Hostage Deal
Chris Cillizza: Male Friendships, Political Posturing, and the Death of Shared Sacrifice
Geeta Gandbhir: "She Weaponized Her Privilege"
Not Even Mad: Jeff Nussbaum & Dan Rothschild
Aaron Tracy and Roald Dahl's Dangerous Double Life
Nir Eyal: "Your Brain Is Already Lying To You"
Elizabeth Tsurkov: Surviving 900 Days as a Hostage
Mike Pesca on Lifelong: The Bliss Molecule and the Psychology of Weight Loss
Funny You Should Mention: Jena Friedman
Jamie Denbo: Why I Walked Away From Grey's Anatomy
Brian Platzer: A Story that Literally Couldn't be Told
Gina Gershon: "They Treat You Differently With Boobs"
Eli Lake: "It Could Be An Epic Historic Geopolitical Mitzvah"
John Fugelsang & Corey Brettschneider: "Stochastic Self-Censorship"
James Kimmel Jr. : "Revenge Is Dopamine With a Law Degree"
Not Even Mad: Austin Berg & Andrew Egger
C. Thi Nguyen: "The Appearance of Winning"
Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: "Go Where the Pain Is"
Kenji Yoshino & David Glasgow: Saving DEI
Is Anyone Not A Fan Of Eileen Gu?
Alex Roarty: "The Status Quo Sucks Right Now"
Kat and Mike's Museum of Bad Ideas
Congress, the Potency Problem, and How To!
Charles Duhigg: "You can mobilize till you're blue in the face."
The Scalpel And The Chainsaw
Ben Terris: "Visiting A Parallel Universe"
Not Even Mad: Joe Nocera & Jonah Goldberg
Is That BS: Compostable Dog Poop Bags
Autocracy Watch with Yascha Mounk
Aaron Magid on King Abdullah, "The Most American King"
Chris Cillizza on Trump's "Unconstitutional" Election Riff
Funny You Should Mention: Geoffrey Asmus
Jonathan Cohen: "Add Friction" to the Super Bowl of Gambling
Conor Heffernan on Why "Ego Is A Transhistorical Phenomenon"
The Epstein Files Are a Distraction From… the Epstein Files
David Greene: "Obsession Is a Window Into the Human Soul"
Charlie Sykes on the "Little Platoons" that Humbled Trump
Paul D. Miller: "International Law Is Not the Same Thing as Justice"
Not Even Mad: Ruy Teixeira and Jesse Adams
"Chaos Isn't Enforcement": Minnesota Exposes ICE's Political Miscalculation
Thomas Goetz: "Medicine works by helping some people a lot and most people not at all."
Elliot Williams: "We'll get the girls from Annie to even things out"
Michelle Tafoya on the "Complete and Utter Ambush"
Kenneth Vogel on the "Sh*tbag Business"
Jason Guriel: Why Culture Got Nicer—and Much Less Useful
Trump Weaves His Way Through Davos
Chuck Klosterman: Football Isn't a Game—It's the Last American Monoculture
Jeremy Hobson on the "Rally Around the Flag" Risk in Iran
Funny You Should Mention: Liza Treyger
Charles Duhigg: "Looping for Understanding" and Other Supercommunicator Tricks
David McCloskey on Why Real-World Spying is "Too Crazy for Fiction"
Reese Gorman on Congress's Vanishing Backbone — and Dexter Filkins' Rubio "Zig and Zag" Portrait
Séamus McElearney on the End of Omertà as a Business Model
Fact-Checking the Maduro Raid—and the Art of Fucking Around
Ezekiel Emanuel: "Don't Be a Schmuck"—and Yes, Eat Your Ice Cream.
Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen & Charles Fain Lehman
Brad Meltzer on Plot Twists, Product Placement, and Violating Rules on Purpose
Andy Mills: "Acceleration Is Salvation" — and Why AI Might Be the Last Invention.
Quico Toro: Venezuela was never a one-man show
Dan Soder & Moshe Kasher: A Lighthouse for the Mentally Ill
Rosebud Baker: We're Raising Her Autistic
Robby Hoffman: Zero Personality Disorder
Chris Turner: Possession is 9/10 of the Word
Michelle Buteau: An Achievable Beyonce
T.J. Miller: You'll Do Better in Toledo
Sarah Silverman & Kyle Kinane: Comedy, Cancel Culture, and Conspiracies
Alex Edelman: "The Hardest Thing to Talk About in a Joke is Israel."
Roy Wood Jr.: "People Just Want to Feel Good."
Django Gold: The Comedian Who Wants to Dim Your Shine
Thomas Chatterton Williams: Why the Summer of 2020 Wasn't Inevitable
Quico Toro: "Charlatans Burrow Into Your Life and Don't Leave."
Rob Reiner: "I Just Viewed My Child in Pain"
Jay Jurden: High Profundities Per Minute
Nicholas Wright: When Ancient Brains Meet Modern War
James Clyburn: "The World Would Much Rather See a Sermon Than Hear One."
Mikhail Zygar: From Glasnost Whiplash to Social-Media Smog
Chris Dalla Riva: "Billboard's become a Christmas chart."
Finding the Next Terry Gross with Daniel Oppenheimer
Shadi Hamid: The Left Should Learn to Love American Power
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner & John Ketcham
Holiday Suicides: Is That BS? with Sadie Dingfelder
Mark Rowlands on Memory and the Stories We Tell Ourselves
Daniel Zoughbie: The Mightiest Turns an Enemy into a Friend
Mike Pesca on the Vig, the Fix, and the John Goodman Thumb
Funny You Should Mention: Mohanad Elshieky
TJ Raphael on the Liberty Godparent Trap and the Cost of Coercion
Rachel McCarthy James on Axe Murder, Salad Spinners, and the Hat-Brim Line
Daniel Brook & Brandy Schillace: The Sex Expert Who Scared Hitler
Murdaugh Showrunner Michael D. Fuller: Power Metastasizes
Jesse Eisenberg: "Marv Albert Is My Therapist"
Bob Saget & Chuck Klosterman: "I Really Have Become Liza Minnelli"
Henry Winkler & Clint Watts: "Three Little Fonzies and a Trail of Dead Russians"
Abby Phillip: "The Stones for David's Slingshot"
Not Even Mad: Russ Muirhead & Nick Gillespie
Mike Vuolo & Bob Garfield: "Life Is a Flat Pizza Bagel"
Mike on Matt Lewis Can't Lose
Funny You Should Mention: Myq Kaplan
Fareed Zakaria on Revolutions, Backlashes, and the High Cost of Not Fixing Immigration
James Patterson: "My Time Here Is Short. What Can I Do Most Beautifully?"
John Amaechi: "Excellence Isn't Sorcery"
Nicole Gelinas on Crime, Bail, and Mamdani's Vibesy Criminology
David Ignatius on Space Wars, Skepticism, and His Father's Legacy
Katie Herzog Is the Kind of Person Who Googles Recidivism Rates in an AA Meeting
Not Even Mad: Charles Lehman & Brad Carson
John J. Lennon — "I'm Owning My Sh*t on the Page"
Jon Levy: "We Don't Really Want Authenticity"
Sarah Goodyear and Doug Gordon on Life After Cars
The Good Fight Club, or Good Fight Club?
Funny You Should Mention: Dusty Slay
Sadie Dingfelder on "Hair, Feathers, and the Theater of Disgust."
Colin Woodard: The Federation Is the Fault Line
The Wars Trump Says He Ended, and the One Cheney Began
Matthew Hiltzik on the Craft of Crisis Communications
Mike Pesca on "Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em"
Art Cullen on Iowa's Corn Gospel, Cancer, and Capture
Beth Macy: "When the Local Paper Dies, the Community Follows"
Karine Jean-Pierre: "Independent," Evasion, and the Party She Says Left Her
Steve Hayes & Damon Linker: The Hole Truth
Barista Michelle Eisen on Face Tattoos, Short Staffs, and Union Shots Fired
Jeremy Workman — "Walking Every Block, Hiding in a Mall"
Funny You Should Mention: Ariel Elias
No Capes, Real Peace: U Thant's UN and What We Lost
Alicia Wanless — "The Ecology of Information"
Michael Kirk — "RFK Jr.'s Latest Addiction: Attention"
Michael Townsend & Jeremy Workman: "Secret Mall Apartment"
Chris Murphy: "Congress needs to take war powers back."
Lisa Graves: On The Roberts Court's Power Play
Not Even Mad: Jonah Goldberg & Zee Cohen-Sanchez
Jonathan Mahler: The Tabloids That Made The City That Made the Country
Cory Doctorow: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It
SCOTUS's Shadow Docket, Calibrated + Steven Vladeck
Funny You Should Mention: Steph Tolev
Plestia Alaqad: "The Eyes of Gaza," Witness and Journalist
Jake Tapper and the Race Against Terror
Obama CDC Director Tom Frieden: "'Believe in Science' Is a Terrible Idea."
Steven Pinker: "Common Knowledge Changes Everything"
Diane Foley on America's Hostage Blind Spot
Jonah Blank: "Very Quickly and Then Very Slowly" in Nepal
Not Even Mad: Ben Wizner & Ilya Shapiro
Yaakov Katz - While Israel Slept: Winning Tunnels, Losing Time
KJ Steinberg, on The Twisted Tale of Amanda Knox
Amanda Knox — "You don't have to be a psychopath to wrongly convict somebody."
Is Masculinity A Prison? - Mike on Open to Debate
Andrew J. Taylor: "Blue-Collar Voters Don't Want Blue-Collar Politicians"
Justin Driver: "The Fall of Affirmative Action"
Laura Spinney on the Language That Conquered the World
Sadie Dingfelder on Mosquito Magnets and Who Tastes Best to Bugs
Andrew Fox on "Slam Frank": Make Something Dangerous
JD Vance, Jimmy Kimmel, and America's Radical Underground
Brendan Nyhan: Measuring Political Violence Without Panic
Not Even Mad: Michael A. Cohen and Jamie Kirchick
Christian Duguay Brings the Valley Heat
Garrett Graff: "Russia Sought Division More Than Victory"
Garrett M. Graff on "Long Shadow" and the Internet's Descent Into Outrage
Mike Pesca on The Good Fight Club
Bill McKibben: "Energy From Heaven, Not From Hell"
Aaron Sibarium on Charlie Kirk, Retribution, and the Cycle of Violence
Ryan Evans on Drones, Ground War, and Ukraine's Fight for Survival
Nim Shapira: Torn Between Empathy and Erasure
Christine Wenc: The Onion's Straight Face Made It Funnier
Immigration, Nuance, and a Leonhardt Vault Cut
Mike Hayes on Purpose, Grit, and Mission
Not Even Mad: Galen Druke and Josh Barro
Miles Taylor on Resistance Cascades, Rubio's Turn, and Testing the Judiciary
Ex-DHS Chief Miles Taylor: Trump, Treason, and Executive Power
Governor Wes Moore on Baltimore's Historic Drop in Homicides, Plus Laura Loomer's Lunacy
Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire, China, Family, and Power
Nick Foster on How We Really Think About the Future
Inside a Fat Camp named Shame
Trump's Mortgage Attacks and Kessler on Weight Loss
David Kessler on Why Junk Food Is America's Nicotine
Trump's Long Game and Miles Taylor's Warning
The Working Class Party with the Post-Graduate Jargon
Not Even Mad: Rikki Schlott and Isaac Saul
CryptoDad's Pirate Clause: Reviving Letters of Marque
Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail
Katja Hoyer on Germany's AFD and the Limits of Calling Someone a Nazi
The Spiel Saturday Show
The Cheesecake Factory Model of Freedom
When the Train to Hell Runs on Time
Rights You Can't Use
The Case for Good Anger
Rebecca Lemov and the Instability of Truth
Sarah Ruhl on Lessons from the Teachers Who Shaped Her
Peter Moskos on NYC's Historic Crime Drop and the Lessons for Today
Steven Hahn Unmasks the Myth of Liberal America
Not Her Type: E. Jean Carroll vs. The President
High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble
Pay to Play: The NCAA's Big Payout Era Begins
Puzzling The Puzzle Master on The Puzzler
The NIH vs. The New Grievance Politics
Airborne Assumptions and Subventilated Science
How to Make Crime Feel Weird
The Algorithm Is Hollywood's New God
When Hulk Turned Heel
Mike Pesca talks NPR Funding on The 21st Show
Phil Gramm Hearts Capitalism, From Dickens To The New Deal
Not Even Mad - Zee Cohen-Sanchez and Jesse Adams
Ben Smith On Truth At A Lower Resolution
The Bliss Gene And The Burden Of Mood
RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary
Live From America with Mike Pesca
Funny You Should Mention: Trae Crowder
Jake Tapper: Original Sin, Ongoing Fracturing
The Great Lantern Fly Freakout: Is That BS?
The War After the War: Hamas and Israel
Chris and Paul Weitz say Murderbot Doesn't Want to Be a Real Boy
Checking Bags and Attitudes
Poker Face Goes To Interesting Places
NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer
The Loyalty Trap: Inside the 2024 Biden-Harris Collapse
Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers
The Un "Fudge" America Tour Gets "Fudged" From Within
Cascade PBS: Tapper, Thompson, and Pesca
Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer's Political Past and America's Appetite for Spectacle
The Bane of the Blue Collar
Big Beautiful Blunder
Escaping the Nazis. Then Going Back
The Cuomo Special
The Wars We Carry: From Iraq To Port-au-Prince
Closed Schools, Closed Minds
The High Point of Mt. Mamdani?
Tehran Target Acquired...Damaged...Destroyed...Debated
Fordow The Mop Tolls
Chuck Todd and Mike Pesca Join On The Chuck ToddCast
Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker
Pesca Plus Special: Arlie Hochschild
Unsympathetic Empathy
Helen Lewis on Dead Parents, Paper Animals, And The Politics of Genius
What Could Go Right, And Why We Rarely Hear About It
The Gist List Live with Kat Rosenfield
Putting Death Metal On Your Plants Playlist: Is That Bs?
Not Even Mad: Allison Schraeger and Matt Yglesias
Inside the Only Trump Trial (So Far)
The Ghost Lab — Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Government Distrust in the Granite State
Jay Inslee vs. the Climate Polling Problem
The Gist List Live with Ben Dreyfuss
Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner
Lawless: A Storm of Shade and Sneering
Getting on Leah Litman's Case
Revolutionary Fog and Folly
Obama's Elon
Mike Stops by The Reason Roundtable
Ben Ansell on FAFO, FADFO, and the Myth of Immediate Consequence
Bark Buttons: "Who Let the Dogs Talk?"
Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t
Pig Sacrifices and Talking Drums: Don't Squeeze the Shaman
The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss
Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman
Realign for Palestine
Not Even Mad: Eli Lake, Michael Cohen on Biden's Health, and the New Human-Rights-Free Foreign Policy
Inside the Movement to Dismantle Democracy in God's Name
Katherine Stewart on Christian Nationalism's Influence on Conservatism
Alexa, What's with the Pope's Brother?
Henry Abbott on the Logistics of Ballistics
Jocelyn Benson on Being a Purposeful / Purple State Warrior
David Graham on The Project and the Plan to Remake American Government
Character Under Fire: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the Costs of Conviction
Altman Almighty
BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, and Todd
Jim Lampley on the Blows That Made Broadcasting History
Not Even Mad: Eric Zorn and Austin Berg
Max Expression, Merz Confusion
Holy Vehicles and Hollow Coverage
Chuck Todd Presses On
Mike Stops by House of Strauss and The Dispatch
Funny You Should Mention: Michelle Buteau
Rust Director Joel Souza on Tragedy, Survival, and His Non-Relationship with Alec Baldwin
What is Gen-Z Doing with Mewing?
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
Trump 47: It's Not a Heart Attack, It's Gingivitis
The Full Ginsburg
Iran-Contra wrote the Playbook for Presidential Lawlessness
Punchlines and Straw Men
When Experts Circle the Wagons, The Public Wanders Off
Macedo and Frances Lee In Covid's Wake
Kilmar, Detained and Unnamed
Great Britain Chicken Friction
Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller
Not Even Mad: The Commercial Break's Bryan Green and Carine Hajjar
The Fight for the White House in 2024
Four More Years?
Trump's Trade Tactics: Betwixt Chaos and Coherence
Today's Show is About a Different Show That is Not About Tapirs
The Ongoing Black Mark of the Red Scare
The Bond Market Doesn't Do Ayahuasca
Then They Came For They
The Brand Is the Business: Devon Archer on Biden, Burisma, and Being the Fall Guy
Devon Archer, Recently Pardoned, Reflects
Mike on Uncertain Things and Vanderpump Robs
Funny You Should Mention Season 2 - Alex Edelman
Not Even Mad: Sarah Isgur and Sarada Peri
Crocodile vs. Bombshell
David Pakman Calls Out Right-Wing Lies—and Is Challenged on the Left's Spin
The Ideological Brain with Dr. Leor Zmigrod
Mike on The Mark Reardon Show
Trump Loves Women and Many Other Things
Code Name: Pale Horse — Scott Payne vs. the American Reich
Trump's Revenge
The Great Houthi Whoopsie
Chris Gethard and the Great Helsinki Caper
Penn Swimmer's Success Costs School Millions 3 Years Later
Joe Gatto Continues Messing with People
Not Even Mad: Anthony Weiner and Nick Gillespie
The German Jew Who Tried The Nazis
Murdering the Truth and Defying the Courts
The Dutch Once Owned This Isle
Mike Pesca on the Smoke 'Em If You Got 'Em Podcast
Matthew Schrag Alzheimer's Whistle Blower, and Chuck Schumer Democratic Pain Sponge
Should You Shout "Help" or "Fire"?
The Opposition
While Wicked, Trump Is Not Defying Gravity
Elle Reeve Explains the Neo Nazis
The Tipping Point
Oren Kessler, Author of Palestine 1936
Not Even Mad: Tariffs and Doge's Dodgy Dogma
Veteran Diplomat Charles Kupchan Holds Out Hope For a Peace Deal in Ukraine
Those Tariffs Slap
The Gist: More News, Less Gratitude
Mike Pesca Gets Serious....Again!
Kat Rosenfield on Neil Gaiman, Blake Lively, and Women's Wants
Mark Cuban, Pete Buttigieg on the Right Words and Deeds for Dems
Chokepoints and Full Throated Screams
Is Trump Delusional, or Just Betting We Are?
Outrage: Professor Kurt Gray Plus a Visit From The Proud Boys
Old Mitch and Minerals
Hizzoner Among Thieves
Not Even Mad: Noam Dworman, Dan Savage
Marc Dunkelman Dunks on Progressives to Explain "Why Nothing Works"
Eli Lake has Broken History
Vic Michaelis and Their Very Important People
Mike Goes Savage on LoveCast
Chuck D's Creative Process
Chuck D on Artificial Intelligence and Interficial ARTelligence
Andreas Krieg Doubts Israel Can Ever Really Win the War
Jonathan F. P. Rose on the Housing Crisis
Banning Pennies: Wise; NIH Funding Cut: Foolish
The 5 Years from Defund the Police to the Demise of DEI
Trump's Non-Tremendous Un-Beautiful Plan for Gaza
Not Even Mad: Trump's Overreach & the Democrats' Lack of Reach
Trigger Warnings: Are They BS?
One Big Difference Between BLM Rioters and J6 Rioters
How To Get Rid Of A Chemical Weapons Stockpile
BEST OF THE GIST: Very Serious Edition
Miriam Lewin: Surviving Torture, Exposing the "Disappeared"
Presidential Plane Blame
From Model to Mayhem With Michael Moynihan
The Mayor: Murder and Momentum
Carbon Capture—It's Not Just for North Dakota Anymore
BEST OF THE GIST: ERA Edition
Meghan Daum: Women Control Cancel Culture
Not Even Mad: Trump's First Four Days
Executive Order Overload
Carrie M. Lane On Organized Chaos
BEST OF THE GIST: Wildfire Edition
Your Burning Fire Questions Answered
In Defense of Partisanship
Fluoride Is Getting Dangerous: Is That BS?
No Holding Down Hegseth
L.A. Fires: The Cost and the Climate
BEST OF THE GIST: Greenland Edition
The Apocalypse Musical
Fact Check: Meta Goes Fact-Less
Trudeau Virtue-Signaled Himself Out of Office
The Brief Highs and Crushing Lows of Drug Decriminalization
The Wages of Lawlessness and the Laws of Wages
BEST OF THE GIST: Jimmy Edition
Posthumous Presidential Reappraisals
Brain Imaging Studies: Are They BS?
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Roy Wood JR
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Mike Yard
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Django Gold
BEST OF THE GIST: Joking About Parenting Edition
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Sam Jay
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Rachel Feinstein
Funny You Should Mention...Again - Nimesh Patel
Pittsburgh Steeler Scion Jim Rooney
Biden Commutes Death Penalties
BEST OF THE GIST: Christmas Content Edition
A Real Pain with the Analgesic Jesse Eisenberg
Plans Change: Elon, Fani, and Covering Alleged Ohio Cat Consumption
Brian Reed Questions Everything
Trump Library Bump
Drones, Thugs, and Disharmony
BEST OF THE GIST: Tight Edition vs Loose Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 6 Roy Wood Jr.
Luigi Mangione, Daniel Penny, And Jordan Neely
Shadi Hamid Assesses Israel's Tactics
Daniel Penny Did Not Lynch Anyone
Kevin From The Office Tells The Story Of Christmas At Dunder Mifflin
BEST OF THE GIST: Award Winning Edition
Not Even Mad: The Pardon And The Parsing
IS THAT Bulls**t IS BACK
Who To Root For In Syria?
Ben Rhodes On Democrats' Missteps
Election 2024: Tall Tales Of A Short Campaign
BEST OF THE GIST: NewsGuard Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 5 Mike Yard
Abraham Lincoln: Plow The Speed
All The President's Thighs
Congressman Seth Moulton
BEST OF THE GIST: HR-Ification Edition
A Healthy Dose Of Oz And RFK
What Does Jay Bhattacharya Want To Do With The NIH?
Parks And Rec, In Effect
A Traffic Jam Of Political Malfeasance
Ol' Doc Flugelhorn'll Heal You Right Up
BEST OF THE GIST: TCB Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 4 Django Gold
Gaetz Rates As Latest Basket Case
Hegseth In Over His Head
Lock Em Up: from Threat to Truth
The Chicken Beer And Video Game Phase
BEST OF THE GIST: Trump Wins … Again Edition
Trump's Megaphone Is A Thing Of Envy
Polling Predictiveness And Nate-Hating Maniacs
Trump II, Day 1
The Migratory Patterns of the North American Elk as Rendered In Song
Pennsylvania's Battle Against Election Denial
BEST OF THE GIST: Endorsements Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 3 Sam Jay
The Gist Presidential Endorsement
Garbage Gate Redux
A Panel Of Zoomers
Floating Pile Of Garbage Punchlines
BEST OF THE GIST: Zimbardo Edition
Dad Jokes
The End Of The World As Fred Knows It
How John Lewis Conceived Of Change
Stained Steele
Da Bulls, Da Bears, And Da Bottle
BEST OF THE GIST: Nobel Prize Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Episode 2 Rachel Feinstein
Saving The Earth By Salting The Clouds
Harry In A Hurry
The Pennsylvania Pollsters
Pesca Plus Jake Tapper
BEST OF THE GIST: The Dispatch Edition
Who Wants to Be A College President?
Talking Zoning Without Zoning Out
Shifting Shame To Blame, The Trump Way
Swing State Update: Nevada
The Eric Adams Mishegoss
BEST OF THE GIST: Terror Edition
Funny You Should Mention - Nimesh Patel
Wisconsin By A Whisker, Arizona By An Iota
Knucklehead Of State
For Israel, Tactics Are Strategy
Israel Ponders A "Winnable" War
BEST OF THE GIST: Dog Food Edition
A Barn, A Murder, And The Weight Of Secrecy
Liberalism As A Way Of Life
"Obamaha" For The Win
Weight Loss Drugs And Snacking On Monkey
Chronicling The Black-White Wealth Gap
BEST OF THE GIST: Reason Edition
Naked Came The Lieutenant Governor
Maryland Governor Wes Moore
Phoning In The Election
How A Judge Decides Who Gets A Second Chance
Television Doesn't Understand Why People Watch TV
BEST OF THE GIST: Dan Savage Edition
The Missiles That Pissed Off Putin
Defaming DiResta For Defining Disinformation
Got Cat?
How Is This Election Close?
Barack Talk
BEST OF THE GIST: Paper Straw Rant Edition
Endemic Is Less Polemic Than An Epidemic
Colony Calumny
Kamala Nails The Soundbite
Heavy Metal Thunder
Well, like, dude...its Labor Day
BEST OF THE GIST: Jonah Goldberg Edition
Gaming Out Insurrection
Homo Economicus
The Rise And Fall Of Crypto
Writing Comedy
Releasing Robot You Into The World
BEST OF THE GIST: Mike Visits The Free Press
They Are Out Of Their Minds
Coach Schmalz
What Are Kamala Harris' Legislative Priorities?
On Line For The DNC, Left Harasses Not-Quite-So Left
Fixing The Constitution
Best Of - Ethics and Journalism
The Societal Profusion Of Rapid Onset Mass Delusion
Living In A Vibrant Vibocracy
Juul Of Denial
Risking It All
The Woman Who Catches Serial Killers
BEST OF THE GIST: Predictions Edition
Nate Silver vs. The Village People
Why Stop The Gravy Train Of Joy?
Walz Wields His Midwesternry
Tim Time
Bear Market
BEST OF THE GIST: Tim Walz and John Adams
Will Judaism Make Josh Shapiro The Unchosen Person?
Biden's Black Hole Polling Effect
Dangerous Presidents: The Second, And The Second-To-Last
Kamala Harris, For Whom the Ding Dongs
The Fine Line Between Greatness And OCD
BEST OF THE GIST: Like Gold, Bronze Is Better Than Silver Edition
Cool To Be Cringe Kamala
Cherrying The Biden Tenure
How To Moderate Great Debate
Harris "Prosecuting" Trump
Biden Out, Harris In, GOP Still Thinks They'll Win
BEST OF THE GIST: RNC 2024 Edition
Trump Reflects, Then Rages
Trump's Unexpected Strength With Black Voters
Babydog And Boebert
Republicans Explain Polarization
Heated Rhetoric (And Deranged People With Guns) Are Making Politics Dangerous
BEST OF THE GIST: The Good Fight Edition
Water War
France vs USA When "Democracy Is At Stake"
Elon Musk: Space Innovator or Inefficient Colonel Sanders?
Facing Faceblindness
The AUKUS Caucus Can Be Raucous
BEST OF THE GIST: Founding Fathers Day Edition
Living Constitutionally Requires A Strong Constitution
Spinning The Insidious
Cringing Oneself Out Of The Presidency
Donald Trump, Immune Buffoon
BEST OF THE GIST: Mixed Signals Edition
Must Joe Go?
The Bear, The Draft, The Debate
All The Editor's Mess
Southlake
Joe, Abe Dissimilar
BEST OF THE GIST: Father And Son Edition
Warning: This Discussion Of Warnings Might Cause Googly Eye At Night
Tricking Spotify Into Getting Weird
The Politics Of Holidays
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BEST OF THE GIST: SCOTUS Gone Wild Edition
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Gaza And Other Sieges
Flooding the Dumb Zone
Mrs. Alito's Secret Vergogna
We Just Haven't Been Flapping Them Hard Enough
BEST OF THE GIST: D-Day Anniversary Edition
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October 7 Rape Denialism
Intifada Revolution? Or is that a linguistic delusion?
The Gov Who Cried Wolf, Then Shot It
The Selective Invocation Of Safety
BEST OF THE GIST: Quail And Panda Edition
The Travesty Of A Mockery Of A Sham Of Trump's Denials
North Korean Poop Balloons
That Time Alito's Wife Spat At Me
Space Nukes And Ukraine's Troops
Memorial Day- I Might Be Wrong
BEST OF THE GIST: Endless Shrimp Edition
Not ALL Things Considered
Overruled On Appeal To Heaven
The Right Side Of The Left Side Of History
De-Veining The End Of Endless Shrimp
Vexed And Illogical But Vexillological
BEST OF THE GIST: Wide Right Edition
Arizona Abortions Laws Are Highly Subject To Change
Who's Your Daddy?
Retirement: A Decreasingly Septuagenarian Phenomenon
You Gotta Eat The Bug
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BEST OF THE GIST: Pulitzer Edition
A Drug That Kills Drink's Thrills With Andy Mills
One Cop's Questionable Confessions
A Half-Baked Full-Blown Famine Assessment
Lobbyists As Apex Predators
Objectivity And Other Obsolescent Ideals
For Your Consideration: No Small Endeavor
BEST OF THE GIST: Criticizing NPR on NPR Edition
Posturing over Protests and Protesting over Posture
Does $61 Billion For Ukraine Come Too Late?
Cops On A Campus, Chaos On Another
Divulge, Divest, Surely You Chant In Jest
The Dog Days Of American Politics
BEST OF THE GIST: Harvey, Tossed Edition … Gross
Bezos Uber Alles
The Caucasian Perquisite
What's Eating Uncle Bosie?
Immigration: A Story Both Inspiring And Whack
When "Anti-Zionism" Is A Get Out Of "Antisemitism" Free Card
BEST OF THE GIST: NPR CEO OMG Edition
Saving NPR
Gold Heist, Foiled
Family Guy Guy Guides Us Through Danger
Getting Aid to Gaza
Bond, Trump Bond
BEST OF THE GIST: The Juice, Squeezed Edition
Delicious Chicken 'n' Mice
Pour Some Sugar On The Man In The Mirror O' Mine
Florida, Abortion, and Trump
Arizona's 1864 Abortion Law Stands
Oregon Drug Debacle
BEST OF THE GIST: Podcast Implosion Edition
Remembering The Repressed Memory Movement
Public Radio Podcast Pounded
Trump Is Their Barbarian
Barge Bilge
Real Rolexes, Fake Story
BEST OF THE GIST: March Madness
Can We Wait To Take The Economic Loss On Weight Loss
Our Politicians Far More Extreme Than Our People
Genocide, Famine. Nursery Rhymes
Atomic Habits
Running Out Ronna
BEST OF THE GIST: Tradition! Vacation! Edition!
A Cancer On Royal Rumors
The Gang That Couldn't Kidnap Straight
CRIME WEEK: Shoplifting And Murder, In That Order
CRIME WEEK: Charging Countries With "Genocide"
CRIME WEEK: Using Data To Predict Crime
BEST OF THE GIST: "Photographic" Memory Edition
Jake Tapper On Political Scandal
Gerald Ford Sees His Reflection In The Snow-Covered Hills
Biden's Remembers Photographs, Doesn't Have Photographic Memory
Terrible Leaders And Horrible Followers
Matt Gaetz Temps Fate
BEST OF THE GIST: Unusual Protest Methods Edition
Anatomy Of A Barbenmaestro Of The Flower Moon
Carbon Capture: Boon, Bane, or Balderdash?
Luxuriating In Luxury Beliefs
A Dearth Of Sinemaphiles
Border Porous? Blame Mayorkas
BEST OF THE GIST: Fast-Food Innovation Edition
Get Used To It
Bloody American History, Long Before the Founders
Surge Burgers
Saddam's Secret Recordings
When An Insurmountable Obstacle Meets A Hubristic Work Force
American History Tellers: The Underground Railroad
BEST OF THE GIST: Women In Film
So Close To China, They Can Hear The Music
Not a Fan of Fani
Meet Your Raconteur Guide
Your Enemy's Victory Speech
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Trump Liable, Willis Excitable, Guatemalan Democracy Viable
Parades, Churches, Super Bowls and Guns
God, Guns, and Sedition...In That Order
Our Unconvincing Gun Arguments
Rush To Kill
BEST OF THE GIST: Sunday TV Edition
Identifying Non-Identity-Based Solutions
Self-Executing Themselves In The Foot
The Insurrection And Trump's Election
Color Blindness: Bad for Traffic Signals, Good For Countries?
Does DEI Work?
BEST OF THE GIST: Death Penalty Edition
Who Are The Night Owls?
Bland Tacos, Tap Water, And Joe Biden
Innovation, Alabama-Style
Yellow Lines And Dead Armadillos
Paging Doctor Death
Introducing American Scandal: Police Corruption in Baltimore
BEST OF THE GIST: Penguin Poop Edition
Hague: Vague, Schmague, Or Making A Mistake?
Fluke Happens
Will Haley Bail-y?
Donald Dockett
Nikki's Not Taking NH For Granite
BEST OF THE GIST: Hogwarts Edition
Putin Loser, Times Disagrees
Trauma And Gaza
When There's A Willis There's A Wade
Did DEI Blow The Doors Off An Airplane?
BEST OF THE GIST: Chaos Edition
The Houthi Haircut
Liar Liar Pants On Fire Dot Com
Secret Tunnels, Secret Deals
Bottled Water: Nanoplastics and Mega-freakout
Defeating Putin: Tactics, Weapons, and Will
BEST OF THE GIST: Three Years After January 6th Edition
The Houthis Suck
The NY Times Objective In Objecting to Objectivity
The History Of Scandal At The New York Times
David Duchovny: A Reservoir Of Talent
Mike's Birthday Present To Himself
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A Boxing Day Grab Bag
BEST OF THE GIST: Christmas Eve Eve Edition
Coal Deaths In Your Stocking
Hamas, Holy Warriors
The State Of A Two-State Solution
Northern Cities, Southern Problems
AOC: A Revolutionary Who Wants To Be Loved
BEST OF THE GIST: Sludge Train Edition
Victor Orban And Other Smelly Pigs
Perspectives On War Time Proportionality
Hunter In The Crosshairs, Horses In The Back
Not Graduating College Shortens Your Life
The Trial(s) Of Those Who Killed Elijah McClain
BEST OF THE GIST: Hate Speech On Campus Edition
Untangling The News
Does Donald Trump Still Know How To Talk: An Investigation
"Vast Labyrinth" Or "Box Of Dates"?
When Rewrites Go Wrong
Every Little Thing Xi Does Is Tragic
BEST OF THE GIST: Misused Political Slogan Edition
The Slings And Poop Maps Of Outrageous Fortune
The Tempest In Elon Musk's Brain
Flying Cars Grounded By Red Tape And The Russian Mob
"From The River To The Sea" Rebranded As A Call For Peace
The Future Looked Brighter In The Past
BEST OF THE GIST: Cease-Fire Edition
60 Hours In Israel
Architecture's Weird Definition of "Natural"
Alaskan Booze Cruise
The Proper Corralling and Taming of Disinformation
BEST OF THE GIST: Israel Story Edition
Israel's War Clock Is Ticking
Gist In Israel: The Deadliest Single Site Of October 7th
Live From Israel: A Nation Held Hostage
De-Polarized By An Existential Threat
Fast, Efficacious, And Safe: A Tall Order
BEST OF THE GIST: Competing Narratives Edition
The Science Of History
We Have FedEx'd Our Pandas Back To China
Beaten To Protect Democracy
A Moderate Party's Immoderate Self Perception
Fleeing North Korea
BEST OF THE GIST: Fentanyl Edition
Dalmatian Bumps, The Cuckoo's Nest Effect, and Heists Adjusted For Inflation
The Principled Never Tern A Blind Eye
Geese Buffalo Sensors, Prisoners On The Lam
When Intellectual Rigor Is No Longer De Rigueur
Counting On Hamas For A Count
BEST OF THE GIST: The Power, Wealth And How We Use Them Edition
Israel's Existential Threat Matrix
Too Much Justice Scares The System
What Makes Protests Fail
"Andrew Cuomo Resigned For This?"
Pushing Back On Pushing Out Cuomo
For Your Consideration: No Small Endeavor
BEST OF THE GIST: The Slippery Truth Edition
With The Heights Of The Depths
Church (Commission) And State
Misinformation: Hard To Combat, Slippery To Define
The First Definitive History Of Covid In The U.S.
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BEST OF THE GIST: Swords of Iron Edition
A Pound Of Promise Yields 10 oz. Of Cure
Every Hamas Member A Dead Man
A "Brokenism" Breakdown
In Trump's Fraud Who's the Victim?
Columbus Day ... Or Maybe Not
Israel Attacked, The World Appalled
BEST OF THE GIST: Mr. Speaker Edition
Trevor Bauer Victim Or Victim Blamer?
Picked The Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue
Life Lessons From Peyton Manning
Keep Your Friends Close And The Know-Nothing Doughfaces Closer
Muzzling Trigger Warnings
BEST OF THE GIST: U.S. History Edition
The Hippest Thing About Adam Sandler's Aching Hip
A Constitution Ripe For Authoritarian Exploitation
Phil-Loot-Delphia
It's The Corruption, Stupid
Island Of The Cancelled
BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Unions and Fake Anthrax Edition
Trump vs Boris Johnson As Cult Leader
Politics Was Making Him Stupider Every Day
What's An Accurate Intersex Accounting?
Everything You Wanted To Know About Intersex...
Politics Is A Fist Utah's Governor Wants To Unclench
BEST OF THE GIST: Great Leader Edition
Overturning Convictions By Debunking The Junk
In Defense Of The SAT
He Ran Rikers And Now Probes Probation
Andrew Yang Goes Dark
A Maritime, Marital Novel
BEST OF THE GIST: Vegemite Sandwich Edition
A Marathon Of Charitable Frivolity
How The Privileged Roll The Proles
Korean Teachers Abused By Parents
Joe Biden's Superpower
A Pesca Plus For The Rest Of Us!
BEST OF THE GIST: Labor Day Weekend Edition
I WAS WRONG: The Nunes Memo
I WAS WRONG: The Central Park Karen
I WAS WRONG: Aziz Ansari
I WAS WRONG: Louis C.K.
I WAS WRONG: Swedish Covid Deaths
BEST OF THE GIST: Pop Music Edition
Listen Now: Sports Explains the World
Plastic Straw Critics Were Always A Straw Man
Forgiving The Fumble-Fisted, Not The Underhanded
Candidates Going "Full Prigozhin" On The Leader
Hijacking A Memory ... And Also An Actual 12 Year Old
Uber Uber Alles
BEST OF THE GIST: Politics-On-A-Stick Edition
To Sound The Maui Sirens?
Trump Diehards And De-Meh-Crats
A Georgia Defense Lawyer Walks Us Through The Charges
The Science Of Covid Misdirection
African Prisons Too Crowded For Ex-Presidents
BEST OF THE GIST: Population and Bathrooms Edition
Jumping The Gungan
Dead Drops, Cops, And Special Ops: The Novels Of Brad Thor
The Bathrooms Of Loudoun County
A Truly Deluded Trump Is A Truly Not Guilty Trump
Selling Nuclear Secrets To The Soviets
BEST OF THE GIST: Smart People Edition
Rudy and Lizzo, Sued As Sexists
Crackpot Lawyers With Itchy Ears
The Sincerity Of Trump's Lies
Artificial Intelligence Turns Suicidal And Possibly Genocidal
Trump's 2024 Agenda (Is Not Good)
Listen Now - Think Twice: Michael Jackson
BEST OF THE GIST: Climate Communications Breakdown Edition
Bernie Goetz The Fiasco Treatment
The Great Facebook De-Siloing Study
Give 'Em A Hellish Degree Of Accountability, Harry
Conservative Gold
Sports Slaughter
BEST OF THE GIST: Nuclear Armageddon Edition
Summer Flops-Office
The Thin Bleu Line
A Veritable Vibes-Session Cessation
Shipwrecks And Fact Checks
Prigozhin Rebellion Exposes Putin's House Of Cards
BEST OF THE GIST: NATO Edition
They Got A Monster
Toxic Masculinity And The Autocado
Welcome Back To McWhorter's Quarters
Jake Tapper And Evel's Hog
Muster The Cluster
BEST OF THE GIST: Affirmative Phosphogypsum Quotas
Prune Lola Prune
Technology Revolutionizes Life But Not Incomes
Cooling Down The Tik-Tok Experience
God Bless America … And Scotland, Too, Some Day
Is Ron Deathsantis Eager To Spread Cancer Over The Florida Roads?
BEST OF THE GIST: Who Started The Fire?
Poland Perspective On Putin's Pugnacity
The FBI Lost Their Son
Earth Off Its Axis
Small Person Buries Bones, Scratches Wall, Changes History
Prigozhin Supposin' His Notions Are Well Chosen
BEST OF THE GIST: Homosexual Penguin Edition
House Of Representatives: What The Hell?
Dykes To Watch (And Listen) Out For
An Actual-Sized Map Of Steven Wright's Mind
Sex, Threats, And Audio Tape
Injustices: Current And Historic
BEST OF THE GIST: Frances Suarez Edition
For The Defense: U.S. vs Donald Trump
Betting On Elections
The Prettiest Nazi Double-Agent In Tulsa
Siren Song vs Whistleblower At Facebook
Silvio Berlusconi HUNGA HUNGA Around For 86 Years
BEST OF THE GIST: Zombie Gerrymander Edition
Blissed Off
Damming Alabama's Crimson Tide
Abortion, Guns, And Money
The Geeks Shall Inherit The Turf
DereLICHTion Of Duty
BEST OF THE GIST: Sacramento Nazi Edition
Snakes On The Vain
Who Doesn't Loathe A Sacramento Nazi? (But Then What)
The Steele Dossier Was A Straw Man
Comey On Crime, Real And Imagined
Memorial Day Deliberations
BEST OF THE GIST: Summer Of Love Edition
Chewing The Fat
Dark Shadows Over SCOTUS
Florida Man Tweets, Tangles With NAACP
A Roosevelt Redefines America
The Best Advice If You Find Yourself In War
BEST OF THE GIST: Baby Bonds Edition
Respectfully Rebutting The Reverend
Historic New Hampshire Communist Tried To Live Free, Then Died
Criminal Evidence
All Hail
A Chokehold On Reason
BEST OF THE GIST: Michael Jackson Edition
Michael Jackson's Confusing Legacy
The First Actually Readable AI Novella
No Free Parking
Twitter Thwarts Special Military Operations Against Russia
Smart Guns Are Here
Wondery Presents - Flipping The Bird: Elon vs Twitter
BEST OF THE GIST: Edmund Fitzgerald Edition
From OKC To January 6th
Justice Comes To The Gist
Giannis Antetokounmpo's Epic Fail Denial
J. K. Rowling And The Prisoner Of Twitter Bans
J. K. Rowling And The Chamber Of Insults
BEST OF THE GIST: Camaro Joe Edition
On Masks, 300,000 Bangladeshis Can't Be Wrong
The Jury Is Out On The Proud Boys
Some Words Get You Fired
Monetizing The Disinfection Of Disinformation
Not Defeating, But Disqualifying Donald
BEST OF THE GIST: Barn Fire Edition
Generation Irritation: A Conversation
Do You, Uh Like, LIKE Like, Or Like, Just Like "Like"?
A King's Ransom For Dominion
The Ubiquitous Coverage Of A Rare Crime
Macron Won't Pander, But He Will Panda
Wondery Presents Generation Why: Kalief Browder
BEST OF THE GIST: The Morty and Larry Edition
Justice Thomas' Breach Of Promises
Happiness: One Secret Trick From Decades Of Data
Meme Lords vs Warlords
Thank God It's The Good Friday Accords
Donald McNeil On What We Actually Got Right With Covid
BEST OF THE GIST: Jets Talk Edition
Tennessee Expulsions Explained
ESPN's Mike Greenberg Got Their Number
Oblivion By-The-Sea
Myq Kaplan On Beiond Burgers, Everithing Bagels, And Jokes About Spelling
Denouncing Deplatforming
BEST OF THE GIST: PescaPlus Sample Edition
The Imbleachment Between Impeachments
The Law That Saved Adnan Syed
Chi Town Show Down
Accurately Seeing The Victims Of Police Killings
Punishing The Punishment In The Stanford Rape Case
BEST OF THE GIST: Dial V for Vlad
Checking Into Sam Sanders Vibe
Using Bare-Knuckle Politics To Fund School Meals
Hush Little Stormy
Vaccines, Masks, And The Lessons Of Covid
The Harms We Cause While Doing Good
BEST OF THE GIST: Three Pointer Edition
What Makes A Flag Bad?
How Benghazi Continues To Warp America
Poverty And Progress Is Narrative
Marching Into The Madness Of State-Sanctioned Gambling
Donald The Mafia Don
BEST OF THE GIST: Whale Watch Edition
The High Priest Of The Church Of Audience Research
Walk This Way Into The History Of The World Pt. II
More Than 1% Chance Of Nukes
Taking Flack For All The Yakety Yak
The Unremarkable Antics Of Congressman DeSantis
BEST OF THE GIST: 7 Degrees Of Natasha Lyonne
A Taste Of Poker Face
Tuning into the Anti-Anti Obesity Frequency
The Effective Altruism Crash
Second Amendment Creates Second-Class Citizens
Mass Mask Mistakes, Lab Leak Likelihood
BEST OF THE GIST: President Carter Edition
Bill to Ban Book Bans
Buttigieg On The Scene in East Palestine
Drawing Putin Into War
Tim Blake Nelson, Alec Baldwin, and GIST SUBSCRIPTIONS!
BEST OF THE GIST: NBA All-Star Break Edition
Economic Growth Still Works
Glacier Erasure
From Mob Infiltrator To NBA Officiator
Fentanyl Is An Earthquake
America Lost The Reading Wars
BEST Of THE GIST: Life After Football Edition
Just A Man And His Will To Survive….In Bronze
The Sarah Lawrence Cult
Jackals' Heckles Raises Hackles
11 Days Of The Mooch
What's Preventing Inventing From Ascending
BEST OF THE GIST: Policing The Police Edition
Steve Mulroy On Prosecuting Cops Who Kill
Caucus? They Don't Even Like Us
Radioactive Needle In Antipodal Haystack
Michael Imperioli Is Seized By Divinity's Hot Breath
Ivy-Covered And Anti-Jewish
BEST OF THE GIST: Oscars Edition
EveryTár Elviswhere All At The Western Front
Making Meta Better
Trump Tax Exposure
The Great Mississippi Indian Laborer Jailbreak
Matt Gaetz Is ... Rational?
BEST OF THE GIST: Classified Documents Edition
How To Save A Hostage
Goodbye, Boomers
The Pleasure Of The Measure
Bad Romance ... Novelist
BEST OF THE GIST: Speaker Of The House Edition
Iran's Targeting Of Women
Biden Does Dumb Doc Depository
New Dominion For Former Fox
Unleash The Kraken!
Bolsonaro's Brazilian Boobs
BEST OF THE GIST: Alec and Bob Edition
Two Years Later, January 6th Chaos Reverberates
Oh Kevin
Alec Baldwin On Tropes, Tics, And Prosthetic Dicks
Uncertain Outcomes
BEST OF THE GIST: Duets Edition
Election Fraud, Cocaine, Or A Ginger Mint?
It's The Gun, Not The Ghost
Volodymyr Heads Over Here
The Symbolic Meaninglessness Of Criminal Referrals
Meet The New Meth
BEST OF THE GIST: Vuvuzela Edition
Greatest Christmas Songs Ever
So This Is Christmas, And What Have You Done?
AI Selfies: Fun or Flirting With The Apocalypse?
Nina And Ruth
Making Alex Jones Pay
BEST OF THE GIST: Merchant Of Death Edition
Legends Of Independent Sinema
Licking Our Zoom Wounds
From Disco Beaver To White Lotus
The Slightly Less Than Beautiful Game
Herschel Shocked
BEST OF THE GIST: Talking About Guns Edition
Covid Clemency
Party Pooper
Liberal But Licentious Lion
Is America Really Flirting With Civil War?
SF's Human BS Detector
BEST OF THE GIST: Uncle Slander Edition
The Number 1's of '92
Catching Up With Chris Hansen
Why Bolsonaro Admitted Defeat
BEST OF THE GIST: Pelosi Edition
No Way To Pick A President
$1,000,000 Ticket
Implicating Trump Under Oath
The Democratization Of The Book Deal
The Princess And The Shaman (Who Might Also Be A Lizard)
BEST OF THE GIST: Squishy Science Edition
What Went Right For The Dems And Wrong For The Pundit
Hot-Dog And The Arizona Results
A Red Ripple
Today We Vote, Tomorrow We Kvetch
Researching Those Jerks In The Other Party
BEST OF THE GIST: Is Fear Of Crime Warranted?
Democrats Hispanic Panic
Jesus And The Pool Boy
Marjorie Taylor Greene, Unwell Tip Of The Nutty Spear
Arizona's Crazily Close Races
Living Like It's The 1789
Introducing The Last Resort
BEST OF THE GIST: Ash Carter (RIP) and Kanye West (WTF)
Musk Mustn't Muck With Much
Hidden Childhood Poverty Wins
Kari and Herschel and Jamie and Virginia and Mike
Alan Dershowitz Would Do It Again
The Sorry State Of Arguing
Introducing Story of the Week with Joel Stein: Billionaires Prepping for the Apocalypse
BEST OF THE GIST: Argumentative Edition
Deciphering The Mystery Of Xi Jinping
Liz Truss, A Bit Of A Dog's Dinner
Sparring In Georgia's Races For Senate And Governor
Outside-The-Box-Kind-Of-Guy Alex Jones
Downfall Of The Dudes
BEST OF THE GIST: CA Politics Edition
Teasing Trump
Kid, Out Of The Hall
Everything About The Economy Ever, Pithily Explained
L.A. Disrespectful
BEST OF THE GIST: Bros Edition
Those Who Oppose Bros
Misplaced Civil War Anxiety
Nuclear Fuel For Thought
It's Legit To Quit
The Libertarians Have Lost The Thread
BEST OF THE GIST: Live Music Edition
Constitutional Rebuke
Hunter's Laptop: The Movie
A Constitutional Convention We Didn't See Coming
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?
This Music Festival is Unacceptable!
BEST OF THE GIST: Adnan Syed Edition
Billionaires; Good Guys Who Need Strict Rules
College Needs Disrupting
Examining Putin's Pivots
Why We Like The Music We Like
China Told Us Who They Were
BEST OF THE GIST: Good News Edition
An Oil Price Cap Could Work
Putin's Slick Substance
Why Will Writes
QAnon Shaman To His Left, Police To His Right
Crashing The Capitol
BEST OF THE GIST: Susan Orlean Extra + Juul To Pay $438.5 Million
Oz and Incest
China Is Always Watching
Susan Orlean Explodes Books
Beaver Hunt
BEST OF THE GIST: Back To School Edition
Where Does The Arc Of History Really Bend?
Confronting South Africa's Racist-Created Trauma
Trump Impeachments: Behind The Scenes
A House Member Shouts "Fire"
Sometimes ER Doctors Aren't Sure Either
BEST OF THE GIST: The Fall And Rise Of Adam Neumann
To Pathologize, Or Not To Pathologize?
Why Atlanta Burned
When A Mass Shooting Happens On Your Watch
Senator Leahy On D.C.'s Brighter Days And Gotham's Dark Knight
What Do The Taliban Want?
BEST OF THE GIST: Monday Night Calculus
A Fine Line Between Pleasure And Pain
Confoundingly Dense Communications
Mr. Xi's Neighborhood
An Alaskan Election Direction Inspection
What He Lost When We lost Afghanistan
BEST OF THE GIST: Leave George Washington's Thighs Alone
High Steaks Talks
Twitchy Monkey Forbearing Dragon
Politics and PTSD
Burned Again and Again
Path Lit By Lightning
BEST OF THE GIST: Unintended Consequences
Podcast For Sale!
Disagreeing On De-policing
Pelosi's Taiwan Tour
Is It The Right Era For The ERA?
Manchin Chucklefest
BEST OF THE GIST: Korean Edition
The Joe Manchin Doom Loop
Treating The Aurora Mass Shooter
All Of The Marvel Pages Through The Ages
Space Race International Base About Face
Civil War: Possible Or Probable?
BEST OF THE GIST: The Mailman And The Secretary
Trump's Yesterdays Implicate His Tomorrows
Thot Thoughts
Some Dare Call It "Cowardice"
Trading The Merchant Of Death For Brittney Griner
The Fog Of Cuomo, The Rationality Of Buttigieg
BEST OF THE GIST: Jupiter or Saudi Arabia...which is weirder?
American Medicine And Race
A Bold Refrain Explains Ukrainian Grain
Warning Shot
MBS, It's Good To Meet Ya!
Who (Or What) Caused Inflation To Rise?
BEST OF THE GIST: Trump's Words and Johnson's Own Personal Brexit
Everything You Know About Relationships Is Wrong
The Usual Victims Are Usually Forgotten
Activists Not Talking, Not Doing…Just Gluing.
Abortion Changes Politics
BEST OF THE GIST: Is SCOTUS Legit?
Big Lies Never Seem To Die
General Optimism
Treating Cassidy Bombastically
The Heinz Hits The Fan
Is SCOTUS Illegitimacy Talk Legit?
BEST OF THE GIST: The Case Against The Two-Party System
Roe's Shockingly Expected Demise
Tracy Flick Strikes Back
The Presidential Sofa Stuffed With $4 Million
ALL The Colors Of The Rainbow (Except One)
Introducing History is US
BEST OF THE GIST: Eddie Glaude
Napoleon Dynamite Meets Sid And Nancy
The Elephant (NON) Woman
Facebook, Fox And Far-Fetched Fictions
A California Template For Assault Weapons Ban
The Project That Collects And Projects Violence
BEST OF THE GIST: Larry Wilmore and James Kirchick
A Powerful Hearing; If You Were Listening
Veteran Comic Feels The Chill
DC's Decades-long Hostility Towards Homosexuality
Texas Politicians Perform The Two-Step On Guns
A Place For George Carlin's Stuff
BEST OF THE GIST: Student Debt And Johnny Depp
The Benign Menace Of Stephen Root
Is Corporate Rectitude A Trap?
No Business Being In Russia
Rescuing Basketball's Past
BEST OF THE GIST: It's Time To Ban The AR-15
A Hundred Billion Dollars In The Seat Cushions
GOP Has No Good Gun Answers
Uniquely Proficient Killing Machines
A Hot War, A School Shooting
How Not To Catastrophize The Climate Change Catastrophe
BEST OF THE GIST: Without Guns, Would There Be Mass Shootings?
Bear Equals Market Weakness, Fast Horse Avoids Preakness
Putin Plays Politics Too
Gun Control, Controlled
Don't Be Soft On Speech
A Bad Guy With A Gun And A Rotten Ideology
BEST OF THE GIST: Plastic Straws And State Songs…You Know, The Important Stuff
Bazelon Considers The Court
Chuck Schumer, Legislation Doomer
Speech, both Fettered and Free
Change of Address
Polarization 101
BEST OF THE GIST: Reflecting On SCOTUS
Isis v. Taliban
Character Test
What Progress Have We Seen Since The Murder Of George Floyd?
No Mo RO
How I Got Inflation Wrong
BEST OF THE GIST: What The F**k Is Up With David Daley And Elon Musk
Gerrymander Garcia
The Cost of Arming the Ukraine
Trump Legal Jeopardy VS Dems Wishful Thinking
Coups News
Unlocking the Puzzler Brain
BEST OF THE GIST: Bill Browder On Investing In Russia, And Lucky Charms Get Unlucky
Joyless Coitus
Is The US Damned By Diversity?
Tokelahoma
Putin's Offensive
The Real Deal with the Courts of Appeal
BEST OF THE GIST: Gilbert Meets His Maker, Boris Does Not
The Interest Rates Are Too Damn Low!
From Sperm To Spurned
Paternity Shockers Aren't Just for Maury Anymore
The Art of Practical Criminal Justice Reform With DeRay McKesson
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BEST OF THE GIST: Buy Me Some Peanuts And…Product Placement
Taking A Trip To Argyle With The Odenkirks
Sick Of Sports
5 Words From Quincy Jones
Negotiating All Wrong
Putin's Info Iron Curtain
BEST OF THE GIST: Chuck Klosterman's Wrong, And The Battle Over Daylight Saving Time
You Don't Need The 3!
Bomb Clearing In Ukraine
Dialing Up The Nineties
Alex Jones' False False Flag
Slapped Jester
BEST OF THE GIST: The Madness of March
This Year's Most Successful NCAA Basketball Coach
Bad Date+Pandemic Onset=RomCom Gold
Flat Earthers Are Real
McWhorter's Quarters
She Swims, Wins And Splinters
BEST OF THE GIST: Who's To Blame For Inflation, and The Political Fallout From The Passing Of RBG
Search Party
Pure Index Flex
Run To Daylight
The Bad Way To Rebel
Who Owns Inflation?
BEST OF THE GIST: Brittney Griner and Henry Winkler
A New Phase For Ukraine
How To Craft A Thriller
Guns Gas And The Great Stone Face
Kasich and Klepper
Too Far For BiIl Barr
BEST OF THE GIST: Special Guest…Mike Pesca!
10 Shots But Not Guilty
At Least The Seas Are Calm
Ukraine Could Damn Putin
Deep Throat Was An Operative
Are We Crazy To Think Putin Is Crazy?
BEST OF THE GIST: The Age Of Charlatans
Glib Punditry Helped Putin
A Big, Long War
Police and Prostitutes in South Africa
The Clever Thugs
BEST OF THE GIST: Protestors And Laundromats
The Peach State Voting Slate
Crouching Mogul, Roaring Dragon
BoE Booted By The Bay
Off-Label Abuse
The Cost Of Paying Attention To Trump
BEST OF THE GIST: Xiao Mina On Memes In Protest...And Mikaela Skis Out
Rooney Rule Ridicule
Canucks Horror-Struck At Stuck Trucks
The Time Hackers Took Down Two-Dozen Texas Towns
Al Franken Gets Specific About Senators
Former Senator, Touring Comic, and De-Humor-izer Survivor Al Franken
BEST OF THE WEEK: Joe Rogan Goes Rogue
A Retelling Of Dog Day Afternoon Blows Up
The Well-Crafted, Certainly Amusing Sameness Of Late Night TV
The Techno-Utopian Internet Game That's Immiserating Filipinos
Vaccine Doubters Aren't Sayin'....They're Just Saying
Stories Are A Tool, And Tools Can Be Deadly
BEST OF THE WEEK: Neil Young Takes Aim At Joe Rogan's Spotify Platform
Free Speech Has Costs
"It's Me Or Joe Rogan!" (It's Rogan)
"I'm Beginning To Worry About Putin's Mental State"
Reports Of America's Internal Bloodlust May Be Slightly Exaggerated
We're Back In Time For The Revolution
The Return of The Gist
'Till the Cows Come Home
Limbaugh's Lamentable Legacy
How History Will Remember Trump
The Directionless are Misleading
When the Victims are the Jurors
How Trump's Lawyers Will Defend the Indefensible
Belknaps and Bad Lawyers
Comparing COVID-19 vaccines and Climate Change with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed
Taking QAnon Seriously
Stand By Your Lunatic: Republicans Want Marjorie Taylor Greene to Keep her Committees
Trump's Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Impeachment Defenses
Coronavirus Symptom Check
Making Fun of the GameStop Stonks
Arizona Lawmaker Says, No Vote For You
Republicans Horribilis
Illusions, Delusions, and Flat Out Lies
The Murder of Saudi Arabian Journalist, Jamal Khashoggi
Calling Larry King; and Part One with Oscar Winner Bryan Fogel
The Cost of Convicting Trump Feat. Guest Joe Lockhart
Pardon Me?
Joe Biden Takes Over
Last call for Donald Trump
Senate hopeful John Fetterman talks incarceration, gun control, and Trump voters
What You Might Have Missed
His Time is Up
We Are Who We Are
Militias in the Mitten State
Abandon Ship
Siege Subculture Stories
Capitol Siege
One Needle to Predict Them All
Who is Ken Jennings?
The World's Worst Year Ever
America's Worst Year Ever
Getting Carriered Away
Simply Having a COVID Christmas Time
Washing Out the Trump Stain
The Death Sentence Is Dubious
The Shrinking Majority
Democrat Delusions
Keeping an Eye on the Fall
Constructing Joe's Cabinet
Competence Prevails
Happy Fifteen Years, Political Gabfest
Middle Class Musts
Medical Racism and Vaccine Fears
Worthy of the Vaccine
Year of the Rat
Wrecking Public Trust
Perdue's Share of Pfizer
Fiddling With Georgia's Election
Punting on Opportunity
Progressives Cry Betrayal
A Start-Up Letdown
Remember When
How To With John Wilson
Cover It Up!
No Redress for the Wicked
Carried Away
Warp Speed Worked
A Safe Thanksgiving?
Democrat Divergence?
Home Is a Construct
No Coup for You
Jeopardy, A Beloved Tradition
The News Normal
The Democrat Debrief
That Election Feeling
The Day After
Election Night 2020
Fear the Shy Trump Voter?
Broadband Is Not A Luxury
Swinging In Iowa
Lone Star Elections
The Last Frontier
Georgia on Our Mind
Last Pitch Effort
Calling It: Dan Rather
Calling It: Brian Rosenwald
Calling It: Julie Pace
Calling It: Steve Kornacki and Brian Stelter
Masking Over Truth
The Personal Is Judicial
Pollster Pitfalls
Talking Around Amy Coney Barrett
Talk Radio Rally
The World Needs Better Men
Too Big to Govern?
Rebranding Schadenfreude
Iterations of Idiocy
Hoisted By His Own Petard
You Gotta Believe
Dastardly Debate
Drawing Districts
Deliver Us From Trump
Reconsidering Comey
Democracy's Nightmare Scenario
Justice or Retribution?
The Consequence of Elections
Wishing for Democracy
Special: SCOTUS After Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Condemn Nation
Fuel for a Cold War
Stop Fracking Out
Third Party Thieves
Biden Wouldn't Have Saved Us All
Is It So Bad?
The QAnon Questions
Trump's Taxpayer-Funded Defense
No Cause Bigger Than Himself
Brainworms or Biden
Racism In The Simulation
Villain Not Vigilante
Is Anybody Paying Attention?
Trumpian Chaos Theory
One Stat to Rule Them All
The Curse of American Traffic
The High Court of Facebook
In Lieu of Happy Hour
Mistrust Your Memory
Our National Intelligence Is Broken
Pursuing Progress
Prosecuting the Past?
Moving to the Middle
The Law's Favorite Outlaw
Conspiracist for Congress
The Folly of Predicting the Presidency
A Spectrum of Love
Kamala Joins the Ticket
Wise to the Lies?
One Third of Americans Are Always Wrong
The Evils of Election Incompetence
Trump's Foundation Is Crumbling
Teachers Are Not Essential
America Has Failed
Stuck in the Suburbs
The Legacy of John Lewis
Unmasked and Unhinged
Bill Barr's Tactical Boredom
Ignoring the Need Economy
Lone Star Lunacy
The Mask Monologues
Congress Can't Contain Its Crazy
Portland Is in Peril
One-Trick POTUS
Losing the Liberty of Public Debate
White Fragility Kills the Argument
Softball Stupidity
Biden His Time
Uneducated Posturing
Usain Bolt's Greatness Code
Guns Make Everything Worse
Policing's Big Picture
Canceling Cancel Culture
The Washington Football Team Should Move
Define the Police
Redefining Racism
See No Evil, Hear No Evil
The Never-Ending Trump
Splashing Down on a Mountain of Racism
Playing With a Viral Yo-Yo
The Mechanisms in Place
Unbiased News
Crowd Size and Political Viability
Confronting a White Supremacist
Give Up That Racist Tradition
Get Out Already
Campaigning Under Quarantine
An Imperfect Union
Crossing Out Columbus
Film the Police
Summer at Covid Camp
The Defund Debate Cycle
Defund the Police?
How Ferguson Prepared the Protesters
Trump Doesn't Speak for Catholics
Night and Day
Trump Can't Heal America
The Leaders We Need
Looking Past the Looting
It's Tough to Like the Post Office
Putting Courageous Idiocy to Use
Coaching Through Life
No Regrets
Too Many Pills
Lights Out on Covid-19
Solving for the Future
The Most Powerful Woman in America
Shining a Light on the Mask Market
Crying Wolf on Kushner
Divide Creep Is Ruining America
America's Testing Circus
Are Any Covid-19 Podcasts Worth It?
Sweden's Global Failure
Forecasting Federal Inaction
Tara Reade and the Difficulty of Belief
Do Morals Matter?
Georgia Is a Laboratory
Useful Interviews from Gist's Past
Passing Class Under Quarantine
The Pandemic That Never Happened
Embrace the Outdoors
A Top Chef on Restaurant Relief
The Homeless Can't Stay Home
Good News, Bad News
Social Distance a Century Ago
Too Much Oil Anyway
Who's Worth Protecting?
Listening to Quarantunes
The Real Safety of Shelter-in-Place
Don't Believe Slogans
Preparing Weinstein for Prison
The Comfort of Knowledge
Coronavirus Conspiracy
Sanders Was Too Consistent
Stop Saying the Virus Doesn't Care
Making Chemicals Partisan
Miami and Mayor Suarez's Plasma
Republicans in Christian Clothing
You Can't Just Cancel Rent
Are the Extroverts OK?
Improvising the Presidency
Corona Stimulus Dissenters
Isolation in the Nation
Assessing the Risk of COVID-19
Trump's Dangerous Optimism
Making Outbreak Models
Coronavirus Contrarianism Is a Health Risk
Convincing in Crisis
We Need a Government Bail-Out
Halt the Vote?
We Don't Need a Revolution
Trump's Gaffes Are a Virus
You Can't Win a Pandemic
Bernie's Losses Aren't Surprising
Fighting the Trump Campaign
We're Fumbling the Coronavirus Crisis
Biden Has the Obama Coalition
Trump Is Clueless About Coronavirus
Stop Talking About Women's Looks
Chris Matthews Knew How to Hit Hard
The DNC's Primary Process is Flawed
Busting Bernie's Policy Myth
Combatting Coronavirus With Clowns
Electing the Muppet in Chief
The New York Times is Ready to Rumble
Battling Against Bernie
Leave George Washington's Thighs Alone
Bloomberg's Defenseless Debate
Ye Olde Bloomberg Soundbite Shoppe
Pardon the Crime
Why Iran-Contra Hardly Rings a Bell
Unpacking the Buttigieg CIA Conspiracy
Bloomberg's Bad Racial Math
What Hurt Warren
Are Essential Oils Essentially Bunk?
Moshe Kasher Surfs the Crowd
Iowa Was Lost in Translation
The Unsurprising Acquittal of Donald Trump
The Lesson of Iowa's Chaos
Oregon, Lab for Democracy
Jon Favreau's The Wilderness
The Deep Doo-Doo of Dershowitz
Could Bernie Take Iowa?
The Nuclear Power of the Presidency
Kobe Bryant, Transcendent Athlete
The Hits of 1983
The Monstrous Monotony of Mitch McConnell
A Bunch of Dopes and Babies
Was Killing Soleimani Worth It?
Journalists Aren't Activists
Dave Eggers and the Struggle of Satire
The Wasted Debate
Forgiveness by Fiat
The Issue With Oscar Noms
Marianne Williamson Teleports Away
The Final Great Jeopardy! Game
What's John Bolton's Game?
The World's Worst Extortion Racket
Trump's Iranian Connection
Starting a War
Julián Is Through-lian
The Stories the Gist Skipped in 2019
Approving War Crimes?
Ignoring Iowa
The Democrats Hardly Knew Jeff Van Drew
Pontius Pilate, Democrat
Capitalism Won. Now What?
The Youthful Power of Greta Thunberg
The Kakistocracy Depends on the Cacophony
The Politics of Humor
Discredited Nincompoop Nunes Is (Slightly) Vindicated
Expecting History to Judge
Not a Point of Order
The Truth Behind the Steele Dossier
Biden Wants a Fight
Making the Worse Argument
Kamala Is Out
Alex Gibney's Citizen K
The Great Denial
The Business of Apples
Paving the Way to Progressive America
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Game
David Shulkin Knows Sacrifice
Gordon Sondland Has No Clue
Another Day, Another Impeachment Hearing
Crowdfunding Creativity
Devin Nunes Is a Nincompoop
The Business of Celebrity Tabloids
The Threat of Democracy
For the Love of Scandal
The Imperfect Republican Defense
Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn
Steve Bullock's Blue-Collar Candidacy
The Policy Popularity Game
Another Plan for That?
Kellyanne Conway's Fibs and Half-Truths
The Future for Democrats
The Truth About Impossible Burgers
Tupac and Biggie: What Really Happened?
Samantha Power's Atrocity Prevention
The Fall of Katie Hill
Joel Stein Knows You're Elitist
What Is Zuckerberg's Time Worth?
Facebook Should Fact-Check
Thinking Outside the America Box
Cracking Trump's Code
Meghan Daum's Problem With Everything
The Curdling Affair in Syria
Unmasking the Watchmen
Shea Serrano's Great Movie Debates
Giuliani Whisperer
Who Deserves the Right to Vote?
Uncomplicating the NBA and China
Selling Out the Kurds
The Cowardice of the NBA
Norbert Leo Butz Is on the Long Haul
Gary Gulman's Great Depresh
Presidential Temper Tantrums
ZuckyLeaks
The Self-Impeacher in Chief
Whistleblower Woes
The Power of Greta Thunberg
The Beginning of Impeachment
Lauren Duca Wants a Revolution
Hungry for Murder
Comedy Week: Late-Night
Comedy Week: Film
Comedy Week: Podcasts
Comedy Week: Improv
Comedy Week: Stand-Up Comedy
Do the Hustle
Leave It to Lovett
The Ousting of Donald Sterling
The Made-for-TV President
Scientific Solutions to Absurdity
It's an Economist's World
How We Speak Internet
Lobbying for Good?
The Big Power of Right-Wing Radio
To Greta Goes the Glory?
The Mystery of Ivanka Trump
They Tried to Cancel You
What's in a Face, Anyway?
David Koch Was Bad. But Evil? Eh.
Visiting the Migrant Families in Crisis
Trump Is America
When the CIA's "Dark Side" Works
Tim Ryan's Big Plans
What Happened to Sha Na Na
The Leftist Takeover Edition
The Problem With "White Supremacy"
Are Attention Spans Shrinking?
Who's the Filibuster For?
How to Rob a Bank, And Be Funny While You're at It
Politics Is a Circus
Turning Out the 2020 Voter
Trade War Rumblings? We're Already In One.
There Are the "Maybe" Factors, and Then There's the Rifle Factor.
The Case of "The Case of Al Franken"
How Fantastic Negrito Started From Scratch
Chuck Klosterman and the Ivory Tower
The Consultants of Yore Weigh in on 2020
How the GOP Got Here
The Lie of Live PD
Mueller Is No Showman
How to Talk About Addiction
Robert Mueller's Return
The Moon Landing's Glory Has Faded
How Michael Bennet Wants to Fix America
The EPA Is Losing Its Mandate
Trump Will Lose in 2020
Bring Back Late-Night Cruelty
Acosta Is Out
The CIA's Bad Ideas
Soccer's Pay Parity Problem
The Legacy of Ross Perot
Life After Death Row
Let's Rank the Presidents
Solving Urban Violence
Groaning Through Dad Jokes
Who Is the Real Kim Jong-un?
Pen, Sword, or Rock and Roll
Data in the Dugout
Economic Anxiety? Joy Disagrees.
Erdogan Loses Istanbul. Now What?
Trump's Chaotic Approach to Iran
The Science of Song
Taffy Brodesser-Akner Doesn't Care What You're Wearing
Love, Rules, and Animal Puns
Where Christianity Meets Big Oil
Un-Biel-ievable
A Generalist and a Scholar
Just Take My Money
The Politics of Pith
Warren's Wealth Tax Isn't Enough
Intellectual Agoraphobia
The Melodies of Evil
What "Conservative" Means
Saving Civilians, and the Mission
Out Like a Champ
The Impeachment Tree of Possibilities
Enemies in Eurasia
The Mueller Dud
Impeach a President
The Impeachment Special
The Real Crimes of the TV Show Cops
Life After Parkland
Planned Parenthood Plans for Action
What Basketball Gave Felipe Lopez
The First "Welfare Queen"
A Very Grumpy Death
The Personal Is Geopolitical
Have a Job? Thank Yourself, Not Trump.
"No War" Is the Best Trump Can Do
Decoding the Bliss Gene
Comedy Is No Revolution
Bigger Than Titanic
Who Makes The Gist?
The Retro Hits and Repeats of 2014
The Gist of the Past Five Years
Bird City
"I'll Take Second Place for $2,000"
Derby or Die?
It's a Code World
Avengers: But For Real
Why Fools Fall in Love
It's Getting Hot in Here
Joe Biden's Battle
The Never-ending CNN Town Hall
Elizabeth Stormborn, Mother of Democrats!
The International Hilarity of Loyiso Gola
It's Mueller Overtime
The Better Angels of Big Business
Lock Up Your Mothers
The Farmers' Candidate
The Divergent Charts of 1994
The Real Cost of Medicare for All
The Candace Owens Sideshow
Misquoter in Chief
The Puppet Masters
Are Chiropractors Quacks?
There's No Real Dirt on the Dems So Far
We All Need to Talk
The Societal Optimist
The Thrilling Don Winslow
"Guest is God"
Adam Schiff Is Not Okay
The Boeing Lesson
Trump's Post-Mueller Strategy
The Mueller Report Report
The Real March Madness Upset
The Past and Future Biden
Solving Maternal Mortality
What Merchants of Truth Gets Right
Beto Takes a Stand
In New Zealand, the Internet at Its Worst
Manafort in Ostrich Court
How to Close the Justice Gap
The Fraud Squad
Let the Sun Shine in 2020
American Carnage? It's Real
The Endless Fact Check
The Unbelievably Bad Michael Jackson Defense
Top Chef, the Anti-Reality TV?
The Incoherent Right
Believing Jackson's Accusers
Is AOC Post-Truth Too?
Michael Cohen Isn't Smart
The Spring Breaker Vote
Mayor for America
Billionaire Bashing Is Just for Sport
A Show, But a Riddle Too
The Viability of Bernie Sanders
The Chinese Threat is Overblown
New York's Bad Math
Matt Braunger, Funny Dummy
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Seconds
Open Season For America's Wars
Quoth the Maven
The Green New Deal Is a Dream
The State of the Union is… Overrated
The Culture of Wealth
To Russia With Love
This Festival Was Fyre
Kids Are Weird. You Can Be Weird Too.
Medicare for All, Dissent From None
E Pluribus Unum, Still?
Stone Cold Weirdos
Big Tent Primaries
Digital Journalism, a Market Failure
The Dismissal of Kamala Harris
Will #MeToo Face the Music?
For 2020, Steve King Is Dead Weight
Know Your Memes, or Be Fooled by Them
Tax Their Stuff, Not Their Money
Stop Going Nuclear
Against Steve King, Words Aren't Enough
The Future (of A.I.) Is Chinese
When Fact Meets Fiction
The Kids Are Not All Right
Addressing the Facts
The Likeability Illusion
What's Wrong With Motherf---er?
There's Something in the Water
Impeachment Is a Real Crapshoot
Andy Serkis, Motion Capture Master
The Babies Are Not All Right
The Same Old Mike, Plus The New One
Free Money for Everyone?
Adam Keeps Ruining Everything
The Alt-Right Downturn
Don't Trust the Stars
Decisions, Decisions, Decisions
One Quiet Leap for Mankind
When the President Speaks …
Halls of Fame Need Diversity, Too
They Can't Hear You, Theresa
High Time for Impeachment?
The Walk of the Town
The Eulogy Myth
Sullying a Pup's Good Name
Wild Wild Story
Very Legal, Very Cool
How to Shoot a Fight
The Parent Police
Would the U.S. Win World War III?
Make Voting Rights Sexy Again
Obesity, and You, and Me!
The Many, Many Ways to Think About Running
Uncle Verne Pulls Up a Chair
Ben Stiller's Big Prison Break
Cult Classic
Priming New York for Amazon
More Show Than Showdown
The Love of the (Basketball) Game
Two Countries, at the Cost of One
In a Political Bind? Call Bradley Tusk
A Congresswoman Speaks
Just Ask Mimi
What Newt Gingrich Wrought
Root for the Dummy
American Tribes
Hate Counts
Signed, Sealed, Forgotten
For Every Brand, a Backstory
The Blue Blizzard
Et Tu, NBC?
Blame It on the Mailer
Something in the Water
The NFL Mafia
Prison Guard Confidential
Land of (Only Some) Opportunity
Myth Management
Between a Rock and a Funny Place
Bare Necessities? Not in Alaska.
Olive Branch, Turkey Leg
Going to The Good Place
And What About Yemen?
Guarding the Court
Take Down the Poll
Sitting President, Standing Anger
Reignited (and It Feels So Good)
Mueller on the Mind
College-Aged Coddling
The Kavanaugh Conspiracy
Losing Hate
The Land of Steady Filmmaking
Generation Anxiety
That's the First Straw
Tight Countries, Loose Countries
What Is … a Podcast, Alex?
Coal Over Climate
Owe Me the Money
Ethan Hawke's Earnest Art
Democratic Socialists of America, for the Win?
After Family Separations, a Settlement
Billionaires Don't Know Best
DeRay Mckesson Makes the Case for Hope
Stylometry for Dummies
If You Want Power, Sell It
The DoD Payroll Just Got Smaller
Hedging Your Bets With Lake Success
Farming for Red Herring
Bright Gays, Big City
The OG GOP
Fake News Is Nothing New
Gerrymandering and You
#AbolishICE … and Then What?
Crazy Rich Asians Is Important
Sweep the Left
Don't Touch The "I" Word
Trolls and Trump's Lies
What Happened to "America's Mayor"?
Listening to Inanimate Objects
Goodbye to the Queen of Soul
The Heart of Reality Television
Democracy Needs a Reboot
Trump's Pyrite Touch
Gist Presents: Slow Burn
Venturing Into Obscurity
On Bended Knee
Regulate Me
The Egyptian Seesaw
The Smart Drug
Where Is Space?
My Life as a Sitcom
Quarter for Carter
Courting Politics
They're More Bad Than We Are Good
The Pushback Artist
The Real Deep State
Lights, Camera, Sexism
The BS! It's Everywhere!
When Death Row Stalls
Bobcat Revival
Democracy Dies in Dark Money
A Piece of Pai
The Schoolyard President
Are You Being Servered?
Pardon the Arson
A Cancer on the Court
Gridiron Man
Don't Forget About Sex
The Hole Picture
Just Use My Data, People
How Quickly We Forget
Song, Dance, and Confirmation
Shameless Mitch
In 12,000 Words
Does Authenticity Matter?
The Self-Sufficiency Court
The Unpopular Vote and a Few Justices
The New Rules of Civility
Who Needs Subtext, Anway
A Song You Can Graduate To
Quitters Can't Be Leaders
Polarization Nation
Oh, Stephen
The Heisenberg Presidency
When Border Policy Crosses the Line
Cup of Corruption
Summit Skeptical
G-7 Hangover
Comedians Can Be Well-Adjusted, Too
#MeToo and McYoga
James Clapper: Yeah, Russia Swung the Election
So You Think You Know About Race
Shots Fired, but Not Really
It's Not Just You
Folks, We're Talking About the C-Word
Our Trade Snore With China
Chris Gethard Can't Fake It
Ratatouille Got It Wrong
Deal With Fake News Yourself, Facebook
Thanks for Protesting … Now Stop
Girls Rule, and Boys Think They Rule More
Two-Party Problems
Breaking Up Comedy's Boys Club
Becky Hammon's Next Big Shot
Disconnecting the Dots in Israel
Introducing Upon Further Review
Does Your Face Need a Workout?
Why Putin Matters
The Long, Long Road of Tiger Woods
Some Interrogation
Donald and the Don
Jake Tapper's Very Particular Kind of Escapism
The Dangerous Hits of 1991
Call of Rudy 2
Gen. Michael Hayden
How We Screwed Over Puerto Rico
A Wolf in Wolf's Clothing
ISIS Isn't Done With
Old Man Donald
Korematsu, Revisited?
The Plain Prince
The State of State
The Zen of Cohen
Comey Can't Confess
A Fuller Obituary for Barbara Bush
The Taint Team Cometh
James Comey's Ego Trip
Chemistry No More
"I Never Said That"
Tax Cut Conundrum
It's Regulation Time
Zuck Everlasting
Andrew Cuomo's Pun Problem
Kevin Williamson Dies by the Sword
Oh Good, It Was Just a Handgun
Shulkin Be Sulkin'
Clinging to Guns Is Our Religion
In Defense of the Pun
On Conservative Voices
Know Thy Enemy
Corruption Just Isn't Telegenic
Hitler's Art Dealer
Spies Are People Too
As Statues Fall, Racism Stays
This Storm Ain't Brewing
Will Democracy Survive Trump?
Are Receipts Toxic?
The Year Groove Went Mainstream
Hot or Not: Presidents' Edition
The Rogue at State
The Heroes of Colombia
Russian Doping, Revisited
North Korea Is Setting the Table
No Rules for the Wicked
Guns, Controlled
The Scapegoat in Chinatown
Ben Carson's Not Worth the Outrage
Rejecting Jared
Watching for a Backtrack
Heal Thyself, Dana Loesch
The Abbreviated Highlight Reel of Stacey Dash
Dissing Dianne Feinstein
Don't Fall for It
Who Can Check Big Tech?
The World Is Coming Up Roses
Free Money City
Ban the AR-15
Which Side Are You On?
Runaway Military Spending
Spoon-Fed by the Feds
Don't Call It a White House Shake-Up
Dumb About Deficits
Is the Iran Deal a Dud?
The Longest War Is Lost
America Adrift
Phil Rosenthal Eats the World
Philly vs. Boston
LBJ, Reconsidered
We Still Have No U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
When All the Jobs Are Gone
The Scholarly Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Good Night, Portlandia
He Got Trump's Taxes
Odds, Ends, and Senators
MSG Is A-OK
The Dems Have a Bad Hand
One Year Down
Busted: A Gist Productions Parody
Wait and CR
Nukes and Crannies
Teenage Brains Are Just Different
Is Trump Insane? Does It Matter?
A Cry for Self-Help
Radio Reconciliation
What to Make of Fire and Fury
Going for Gridiron
Move to the Center or Keep on Losing
Killed, Then Counted
Behind the Scenes of Slow Burn
It's Fan Service or Bust
Your Brain Is Bad With Money
Hobby Lobby Is Just Getting Started
Deplorables and Snowflakes
Tax Bill Ballyhoo
Trickle Down Now
Behind the Scenes at The Daily
Don't Worry if Baby Turns Orange
Jeff Ross Got Bored, So He Got Political
Revisiting Another Democratic Wave
The Underdog and the Bully
It's Partisanship, Stupid
The Abortion Fight Led Us Here
Drama in Alabama
Can You Win as the Party of Purity?
Next Falls Franken?
The Boys Club on the Bus
Pete Souza's Photo Synthesis
Bob Saget Doesn't Think He's That Raunchy
Life Is Like Pachinko
A Founding Fathers Bromance
The Problem With America's Rich
Is Neocon Nation-Building Done For?
Dana Gould's Take on Horror
The Anti-War Candidate Was Invented in 1968
What's Next for Zimbabwe?
At Home With Gilbert Gottfried
The Nazi-Busting Woman Erased by History
People Power Beats the Courts
Putting the Con in Economics
Prisons of Profit
The Family Man
Why Bush 41 Was the Anti-Trump
About Last Night
The Paradox of Black Patriotism
Lynn Novick on Making The Vietnam War
Free to Be You and #MeToo
Get Inside the Brain of Michael Rapaport
Talk Like a Pirate (Party) Day
Putting Dr. Seuss on the Couch
Scared to Death?
Sen. Cory Booker Has a Message for Pot Smokers
Fellas We Frolicked With
Jacob Weisberg on the Steele Dossier
Jeff Bezos Isn't King
A Show for Mere Mortals
Marc Maron and Brendan McDonald
Flags Tell Fibs
Falling for the Gambler's Fallacy
The Stupid Genius of Dexter Guff
Sarah Kliff on the Big Questions
Why Now With the Weinstein Stories?
The Shia LaBeouf of Islam
Oklahoma Is Not OK
Made-Up Cabaret
Masha Gessen, Putin Whisperer
Facebook's Data Monopoly
You Poor Seoul
The Presidency is Impossible
The Rage Was Already There
Kurt Andersen's History of American Wackadoodles
Recentering American Politics
It's Time to Rethink Puerto Rico
Mark Lilla's Advice for Liberals
David Litt is D.C. Funny
2007 Defined the Next Decade In Pop
Dylan Moran Will Say It to Your Face
Credit Where Credit Is Due
The Frat Doesn't Have Your Back
Was Booger Really A Nerd?
Ted Leo's Hanged-Man Wisdom
Which Type Are You?
Chris Gethard Wrestles With Comedy
The Hygiene Hypothesis
Nnamdi Asomugha's Drama School
Patricia Williams Isn't Joking
Three Cheers for Houston
Music Is Sex
Choosing Who Gets Flooded
Is Amazon a Monopoly?
Dan Savage on the Nashville Statement
Shake It Off, Taylor
The Flood Trap That Houston Built
Al Letson Became A Human Shield
Mismatch
America Is Weird About Sex
Sure, Punching Nazis Feels Good…
Russia's Lab Rat
The Many Theories of Malcolm Gladwell
The Year MTV Took Over the Charts
Is This the End of Steve Bannon?
The Overreaction Doctrine
Why Are Police Unions So Aggressive?
There Is No Order in Congress
Brandt Tobler Has a Problem With Authority
About the Google Memo
Muhammad Ali's Biggest Fight
Somewheres vs. Anywheres
The Social Experiment on TV
Maria Bamford Wants to See Emotion
The Scaramucci Tapes
A Video Game Thoreau Might Play
No Hard Feelings
How to Beat a Casino
Alan Alda Seeks Clarity
They Called Him Son of Sam
How Democrats Condescend to the White Working Class
Why Did Trump and Putin Meet in Secret?
A Kid in the Hall Tells All
Al Gore, Ever Hopeful
Unearthing a Cult Classic
The Garbage Art of Handwriting Analysis
Tyler Cowen Fears for Our Future
Dan Pashman on the Psychology of Taste
Haunted By "A Ghost Story"
At Sea With James Stavridis
Look at All the Struggling Democracies
Ben Wittes on the Latest News Bomb
Twitter Should Drop Trump Already
In Defense of Ombudsmen
Centrists Won't Save Health Care
Chris Christie's Biggest Mistake
The Incredible Eddie Izzard
Invisibilia Questions Your Emotions
Writing Cop Fiction in the Age of Black Lives Matter
I Hate This, Don't Quote Me
Big Turmoil in Big Sky Country
The Rise and Reign of Unruly Women
Do Radicals Change the World?
Scaachi Koul on Surviving the Trolls
The Musings of Wallace Shawn
Is Terrorism Coverage Racist?
Lies vs. BS
Jon Ronson on Writing the Year's Wildest Movie
The Delicate Art of Political Persuasion
He Ate Human Flesh for Science
Awk-ward!
Autocrats Can't Take a Joke
Larry Wilmore is Black on the Air
What We Get Wrong About Mass Incarceration, Pt. II
What We Get Wrong About Mass Incarceration, Pt. I
Why So Morose About Lactose?
O Great Confessor Google
You Can't Say That, Mr. Senator
The Path of Most Resistance
A Playwright in the Rust Belt
Donald Trump, Body Snatcher
The Colony and the Nation
Ben Wittes Digs Out
Everyone Looks Presidential on Air Force One
Tom Ricks: "It's Shakespearean"
Jon Glaser Is Conflicted
Can We Really Fix College Sports?
Roger Ailes Created This Mess
Why Things Went South in Alabama
Encounters With the Very, Very Famous
Chasing the Bauble With Brooke Gladstone
Are Bilinguals Really Smarter?
Clint Watts, Testifier Extraordinaire
The Man Who Wrote the Comey Memo
Are We Smart Enough to Be a Direct Democracy?
The Formation of Stephen Miller
What's in the Bill? With Sarah Kliff
Observing Obscura Day
Sarah Manguso's Words to Live By
Red Feed, Blue Feed With Cass Sunstein
Facing Your Genetic Destiny
The Incredible Lucas Brothers
When Did Late Night Stop Being Fun?
The Populists Cannot Win
The Clinton Campaign Tell-All
Moshe Kasher Is Not an Activist
When the '80s Went Pro
The Secrets of S-Town
Up With Eggheads
What Happened to the Crack Epidemic?
Ariel Levy Was Here
The Gist Presents the Grift
The Handmaid's Fail
Improv is Hard, Writing is Harder
Why David Letterman Still Matters
When Protesters Pull the Fire Alarm
Shots Fired. What Now?
Lovable Losers With Scott Simon
A More Human Kind of Sci-Fi
An Outsider's Take on America's Game
Where Is the Republican Resistance?
The Return of Mystery Science Theater 3000
Russia Doesn't Have Any Friends
What is Homeopathy, Exactly?
How Political Parties Collapse
Step Away From the Screen
Feet off the Couch, Please
Slobs vs. Snobs
Health Care! It's Trump's Problem Now
James Comey's Slow Drip
Cold, Hard Facts with Wendy Zukerman
What's Next for Travel Ban 2.0
Dangerous Times With Kelly McEvers
Stretching the Truth With Maria Konnikova
Todd Barry Would Rather Be Drumming
See You in Court!
Survey Says …
Trump's Azerbaijan Problem
A Beautiful Health Care Plan, Just Terrific
Moneyball for the Israeli Military
The Fonz Talks About Fonts
The Year "Gangnam" Was Robbed
The Bard of Florida
Coming to America With Maeve Higgins
A World Disorder Doctrine
Gonzo Journalism
George Saunders' American Ghosts
An Experiment to Save Local News in Nevada
On Saddam Hussein's Case
Facing the News Like a Poker Champ
Andy Zaltzman Is Back at Exactly the Right Time
Would a Narcissist Do This?
A Late Show for Grown-Ups
John Darnielle Talks About Words and Snakes
David Frum Beseeches You to Focus
Oh, How This Feels Like Moscow
Elvis Costello's High-Fidelity Life
Plus Jamais Le Fake News
An Obamacare Architect Speaks Out
The Business of Corporate Protest
He Left the Hold Steady for Mongolia
The Case of the Frozen Trucker
Inside the Biggest Pyramid Scheme Ever
The New Queens of Satire
Up in the Air
Yeah, We're Scared Too
Deregulation Nation
Don't Mind Us, We're Just Collapsing
The Problem With Tracking Hate
The Truth About Vitamin C
A Bet Against Reality
The 12-Step Program of Highly Effective People
Trial by Firing Line
Can The Democrats Obstruct Everything for Four Years?
Jamelle Bouie on the Trump Cabinet
How Should We Talk About Whiteness?
Twenty-Four Grueling Hours in Trumpland
How the Onion Remade Joe Biden
The Secret to Meaningful Work
Unpacking Peanuts
The Paradox of Shaving
Mara Wilson's Post–Child Star Life
Ralph Nader's Animal Instincts
Bob Boilen: Tiny Desk, Big Effect
Good Grief
The Home Movie That Changed America
LifeAfter's Mac Rogers
When There Was No Ducking Disco
The Year of Bill Camp
We're Going Into Labor
Thank God for Hedonists
Our Inflamer-In-Chief
Do Strict Voter Laws Make a Difference?
We Could Use Jon Stewart Right Now
Putin Plays the Long Game
Let's Talk About Rex
Don't Tell Kyle Kinane What To Do
Getting Held Back in Racial Justice Class
Boeing, Get Off My Plane!
It's Much Bigger Than O.J.
The Blueprint for Trumpcare
The Chaos Doctrine
Dissecting the Carrier Deal
What's Bunk About Brainstorming
Why Working People Left the Democrats
Stephen Dubner's Genre-Busting Game Show
Revenge of the Music Nerds
A Former Breitbart Star Takes On Steve Bannon
Learning From the Fallout of Brexit
The Incredible Failure of Get-Out-the-Vote
Can Jared Kushner Really Get Top-Secret Intel?
A Show That Watches the Cops
The Liberal Hegemony of Pop Culture
This Is Your Brain on Political Correctness
The Fault in Our Polls
Solidarity, Sister?
The Autopsy
More Rock, Less Talk
It's Morning in Trump's America
Jamelle Bouie Sums It Up
The Myth of the Hard-Luck Trump Voter
Harry Enten Explains the FiveThirtyEight Numbers
A Tax on Both Their Houses
Dominate the News, You Lose
Spotlight on a (Very) Close Race
The Problem With Mark Kirk
A Governor You Can Make a Beer With
Mike Debates His Former Producer About Dating
Dan Savage Diagnoses Donald Trump
Adam Tries to Ruin a Horrible Election
The Case Against Dropping College Debt
Do the Best and Brightest Ever Become President?
Rapid Response: Cirque du Debate
Jill Stein Pitches a Green Foreign Policy
How Do You Prep to Debate a Dumpster Fire?
The Secret Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump
Inside "Late Night" With Amber Ruffin
Why Don't More Women Run for Congress?
Your Food Will Be Ready When You Look Hungry Enough
Where Do Republicans Go From Here?
Rapid Response: The Town Hall Debate
Rapid Response: Trump's Comeuppance?
Phoebe Robinson Will Teach You How to Bae
Fact-Checking Won't Stop Trump
Why Do We Use BMI to Measure Health?
Rapid Response - The VP Debate
Investigating Long Island's Not-Deplorables
How Bad Is the Trump Tax Leak?
Who Called Off the Pretension Police?
The Rules According to Malcolm Gladwell
A Budding Storyteller Turns In His "Homework for Life"
Where's the Beef in Trump's Ground Game?
Rapid Response: The First Presidential Debate
This Debate Is Not the Super Bowl
Is Your Favorite World Oddity Wondrous Enough for Atlas Obscura?
A How-Not-To Manual for Presidents
How Filmmakers Faked the Moon Landing Inside Real NASA
Maureen Dowd Wants a Candidate Like H.W. Again
How Do We Fix Down-Ballot Elections?
"Mrs. Robinson," "Hey Jude," and Some Utter Schlock
The Great Tightening, Explained
Are Southpaws Really Criminals?
Hillary's Campaign Manager on Pneumonia, Swing Voters, and Strategy
What Does the Charity World Think of the Clinton Foundation?
Tony Kornheiser Will Make Fun of Your Pants
Courting Controversy With Drew Magary
Telling Jokes in the Age of Trigger Warnings
A GOP Apostate Explains Her Vote for Hillary
The Year Nirvana Lost Out to Bryan Adams
Do You Rely on GPS? Thank Chuck E. Cheese and William F. Buckley
A Sympathetic Serial Imposter
There's a Viking on the Delta
The '80s Really Were the Best
W. Kamau Bell and Hari Kondabolu Want Equal Time
Why We've Never Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Women's Gymnastics Gets the Hard-Boiled Treatment
Brazil's Redeemer Has Subpoena Power
The Résumé Says "Loafer," but the Loafers Scream "Executive"
Mike Birbiglia and Ira Glass Followed the Fear Here
Should You Have Your Silver Medal Bronzed?
John Dickerson Has a Follow-Up. He's Willing to Ask It Seven Times.
Republicans Are Using Leeches to Cure Cancer
Playing the Spanish Card
History's First Benedict Arnold
If It Feeds, It Leads
Is Your Grill Killing You?
Jessi Klein Says Women Are Dogs
Diary of a Soon-to-Be-Freed Detainee
The Little-Known Story of Sabotage in the New York Harbor
AM Spiel: Hillary Takes the Mic
Celebrating the Nerd Mentality
AM Spiel: No Room for Gloom
Finally, a Pro-Kidnapping Film
AM Spiel: Hillary, Humanized
Optimum Optics
AM Spiel: DNC Quick & Dirty Dissection, Day 1
Pity the Peckish Politician
P.C. Policing the Border
AM Spiel: Points For Averting Disaster
"Your Dog Smells My Dog"
AM Spiel: Cruz Control
Cutting Class
AM Spiel: RNC Rapid Response
To Catch a Cartel
O Captain Fantastic!
And We Never Looked at Music the Same Way Again
The Ungeheuerlich Mr. Johnson
Type A Anonymous
Art That Makes You Angry
A Kamikaze Mission to Jupiter
The Life and Death of Aaron Swartz
It Was the Best of Timesheets, It Was the Worst of Timesheets
Mister Postman, Lower Your Price Points for Me
Reduce, Reuse, and Re-Evaluate
Fantastic Negrito Returns
Wyatt Cenac Wants Kermit the Frog's Job
Poll Analysis From a Spiritual 60-Year-Old
Do the Dead-Cat Bounce
Brittle England
Billboard Hits From 1964
The Character Actor's Studio
If You Build It, Alonzo and Alie Will Come
Can Boris Fool Britannia?
Brexit Stage Right
Charmed and Disgusted With Dave Hill
We Are Never Ever Joining Quail Forever
Against All Owls
You're Not the Real Trump
Shut Your Lie Hole
The Good, the Bad, and the Ali
Hoping Tevye Gets a Cold
The Gangbanger Who Switched Sides
How the Post Office Cured "Going Postal"
Chuck Klosterman Is Wrong! (He Says.)
Tim Heidecker Is Tired of Being Meta
The Myth of Kitty Genovese's Murder
Ghost Bluster
Are Skim Drinkers Milking It?
You Can't Handle the Spoof
Suing the Saudis
Trump Anxiety Hotline Reconvenes
Gov. John Hickenlooper Gets His Ass in Gear
Kevin Spacey Is a Cat
If the Dog Turns Left, Think Novel
The Whigs Were Right
When a Joke Almost Works Too Well
Enlightened Titans of Industry
Saving Paul Ryan
Vote Jabba
Did the Media Create Trump?
I'll Know Porn Addiction When I See It
Neither Frightened Nor Rabbit
He's Not Pivoting
A Rob Reiner-mentary if You Will
Trump as Napalm
Welcome to the Abyss
Trumpeting Mike Tyson's Endorsement
The End of Conventional Wisdom in Politics
Buzz Aldrin! He Walked on the Moon!
Behind the Scenes at Wait Wait
The National Emergency We Call Donald Trump
The So-Called "So-Called Acela" Primary
Bathroom President Ted Cruz
Purpleness
The Energy Crisis and the End of American Liberalism
Did Bernie Pull Hillary to the Left?
Get a Life ... Coach
Bill Clinton's Advance Man Tells All
Billboard Hits From 1986
Hurry Up and Fast
An Interesting and Beautiful Day
Pinocchio's Got a Gun
It's Time We Talk About Wolverines
Twisted F--king Sister
If I Were Hillary
Burning Down Bernie's Momentum
You're Getting Very Sleepy
Jon Ronson, Imam of Shame
The Hamilton Rule
Abolitionist Heroes Lost to History
Are The Winter Blues BS?
The Huge Lingering Why
40 Years for Genocide
The Height of Clinton-Era Pop Music
Crazy Funny with Sara Benincasa, Chris Gethard, and Gary Gulman
1,145 Police Killings
When Words Change World Events
The Secret Genius of the T-Shirt Cannon
A Triumph of Small Talk
Are The Dangers of GMOs BS?
All Things Horse Race
The Duke Lacrosse Case, 10 Years Later
The Year of Travolta
Ctrl-Alt-DESTROY
The Things That Dreams Are Made Of
What Detroit Gave America
Is Torture Ever Worthwhile?
Adam Davidson Makes Negative Interest Rates Positively Interesting
Would I Be Happier in an Arranged Marriage?
Trump's Tiny Little Lead
This Podcast Is for Losers
Bernie Down the House
Chappelle's Show Co-Creator Neal Brennan
What's Next for #OscarsSoWhite?
Whale News!
Yuge Tariffs
Is Bernie's Agenda More Than Imaginary?
Hillary's Chances in Nevada
We Knew You'd Listen
Are You a Super-Encounterer?
Glory Be to Kanye
Acclaimed Actor David Morse
Mike and Frank Take the Stage
Should We Fear Domestic Terrorism?
Is Marijuana Making You Stupid?
Why We Still Care About O.J.
What Time Does the Super Bowl Start?
What's a Vote Worth?
Are Lots of Little Babies Synesthetes?
Toodle-oo Iowa
Finally Forgetting Iowa
Seeing Yourself in "Spotlight"
Obama Did What?
Jesse Eisenberg, Part 2
Jesse Eisenberg, Part 1
Did Track Palin Get Off Easy?
The Creative Duo Behind "Billions"
Paleo and Palin
Changing More Than a Mayor
The Former Poet Laureate to Kim Jong-il
How to Spot a Con Artist
Winning Powerball Numbers
Sea Lion, Smell Lion
Where Genius Is Born
The Heavily Guarded Facebook Algorithm
Exercise Fad B.S.
Near-Death Winter Tales with Matthew Dicks
Terrorists or Nudniks?
The 8 New Billboard Hits of 2015
The Questioner
Bloody Merry
The 12 Days of Trumpmas
Presidential Candidates on Half-Speed
The Ultimate Star Wars Spoiler Is Star Wars
What Is It About Adele's Voice?
Fusilli, You Crazy Bastard!
Gihad for the Calif8
May the Pastiche Be With You
Do We Get the Government We Deserve?
Dollar Strong, Euro Weak
How Stand-Up Got Its Name
Is Cryotherapy BS?
Woodrow Wilson's Racist Legacy
Jon Glaser as Neon Joe
The Amazing Self-Restraint of the Pro-Life Movement
"If Syed Leaves the Party, Call the Cops"
Unwrapping Holiday BS
Thank God This Guy's President
Is Income Inequality Our Biggest Problem?
The Parents of Jordan Davis
The Current Standing of Standing Desks
From Carson's Couch to Nixon's Enemies List
Playwright David Hare
Psychic Spies and the CIA
Only 10% of Our Brains?
150 Foiled Terrorism Plots
Was Paris a Tactical Mistake?
A Devastating Film About Facing Adulthood
Subtlety Sucks!
Is 35 the Ovum/under?
The Great Compromiser
Why Trump Wasn't Funny on SNL
Chaka Khan vs. Deep Purple vs. The Smiths
Ben Carson: The Doctor Is In Tune
Bacon Makes Everything Better, Except Your Colon
Prisoner Rehabilitation Is Not That Easy
Ending Mass Incarceration Is Not That Easy
Played by Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, and Mark Ruffalo
An Unforgettable Technique for Telling Riveting Stories
Is Salt Still Bad for You?
Unnatural … Pauses in "NPR Voice"
Why Jeff Bezos Went From No. 1 to No. 87
Sarah Vowell on Marquis de Lafayette
Less of a Hearing, More of a Talking
Padding Your Résumé for President
They Finally Won
Giving the Freedom Caucus Its Due
1971: When the '70s Started Sounding Like the '70s
Munitions and Menstruation
The Clinton Cadence
All the President's Body Men
Our First Latino Poet Laureate
The Gist Live: Craig Finn from the Hold Steady
The Gist Live: Making Interest Rates Interesting
The Gist Live: Samantha Bee
O Say Can You Shut The Hell Up
Campus Assault Surveys Say Too Little
Field of Screens
Cred And Ginger
Pencil Shavings for Mr. Pesca
Everybody Loves Eating
Alison Brie Sex Scene Therapy
Are There Any Real Catholics in Congress?
Excluding Black Jurors
It's a Copper Sock Miracle
Graduate, Work, Marry, Procreate
That Groovy Summer of Love
Is Anger Curable?
The Canadian Accent Is Changing, Eh?
What Michael Did on His Summer Vacation
Serial for the Truly Obsessed
Dog Show
Yes! Oh God!! Yesss!!!
Bobcat Goldthwait Stands Up for a Fellow Comic
Don't Say Cheese
The Year Disco Became a Dirty Word
The "March to Zero" Veers Off Course in Kansas
Raising a Trans Kid
Garlic: The Secret to a Long Life With No Friends
My Disease Became Your Fad Diet
Rob Huebel and Paul Scheer Ride the Glass Bus
A Horse Is a Horse, Unless It's a Nazi
When Comedy Podcasts Were Still in Beta
The Sons and Daughters Lost to ISIS
Simon Rich, the Premise Keeper
Warning: This Episode Contains Singing
How Economists Define Poverty
Where to Find the Best Stories
Mike Pesca's Origin Story, as Told by His Parents
Summer BS Edition
That's Just Sand In My Eye!
How to Survive Mark Sanford
Debt Ratings Are Like The Emmys
BPA! BPS! Are They BS?
Trump's Star Begins to Dim
The Man Behind "Cabin Boy" Sails On
Ted Cruz Hits the Road
Bed Bugs Are Unvanquishable and It's Our Fault
Yes MSG
Work Harder, America
Overcoming the Intraoffice Cold Shoulder
Step Inside the Juiceboxxx
First Taste of the Juiceboxxx
Comedy Isn't Pretty
American Exceptionalism Rah-Rah
A Different Stroke
To Strangle a Flamingo
Let's Grade a Deal (Iran Edition)
Smile If You're a Democrat
Keep News Weird
The Art of Porn
Easy Listening Wasn't Easy in 1975
Fear Your Shower, Not ISIS
Nerds in the Hood
Telling Stories: Do It Better
Awkward Silence Is Our Polio
Poking Holes in Acupuncture
Will Gay Marriage Upend Gay Culture?
The Following Story Is Based on Real Presidents
1990: The Year Before Music Changed Forever
Is the "Five-Second Rule" Baloney?
Why Humankind Needs Kardashians
What's Fair for Fatherhood
Four Essential Lies
The Creator of Doc McStuffins
Why Dylann Roof Picked Those Two Flags
Go-Go Wearable Gadgets
Deep Dive Into a Defining Institution
Google's Loony Balloons
My Friend Became a Staunch Anti-Vaxxer. Now What?
Tour Guide for The Memory Palace
Sleeping: You're Doing It Wrong
Grasping for the Ferguson Effect
Sharon Van Etten, Banter Mentor
His Dunkological Clock Was Ticking
Mac McCaughan: Solochunk
Nothing Up Their Sleeves?
What a Cherokee Chief Can Tell Us About Andrew Jackson
Ross Ulbricht and the Silk Road Story
Talking About Talking About Race
Living in the Post-Material World
Hoist Up the Liberland Flag
Why Karaoke Carries a Torch for 1984
The Present Tense (and Other Storytelling Secrets)
Dylan's 14-Month Miracle
Nine out of 10 Germs Agree
Why We Lost It Over Beanie Babies
It's Letterman's World, We Just Critique It
Eating Chinese Food Out of the Carton
Another Blow to Bipartisan Spirit
On Twitter, TV Follows You
Are Artificial Sweeteners Bullshit?
Restaurants These Days!
He's Not God, but He Plays Him on Twitter
The Podcast Fight Takes Its Troll
100 Jokes a Day
The Bottom Line on Carly Fiorina
Artie Lange Is a Stand Up Guy
Being Barney Frank
The Bald Truth About Presidential Candidates
Let's Talk About Duck Vaginas
Spooning With Dan Pashman
Your Grandpa Is a Little Sketchy
What Makes a Story Unforgettable
Are Probiotics Bulls--t?
We Dish on the Knish
Before Bombs Fell Out of Favor
From 'The Daily Show' to the Past
50-Year-Old Hits
Putin Programs, You Decide
Ar U for Spelling Reform?
Thomas Jefferson as Touchstone
Vincent D'Onofrio on Introversion and Acting
Risk Lives Up to Its Name
Expired Exschmired
The Moment Has Arrived
TED Talks Shame the Devil
Targeted by Putin
Shakespeare Without the Script
What's a Walking Bass Line?
Gunfight at the Walmart Corral
The Pit Boss of House of Cards
Immigrants Don't Steal Jobs
Practical Yolks
The Wizard of Ooze
The #NotAMovie Challenge Begins
Scharpling and Wurster Do It Best
Puppy Love
Political Kryptonite
My Big Fat German Debt
A Matter of Chorus
Tips for Your Office Fridge
High Maintenance Delivers
Bitter Delights
Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Patents
Songs That Almost Killed the American Songbook
Paid to Play
Republicans: Report to Spring Training
He Stared Down the Soviets
One Condiment to Rule Them All
Smell The Roses
World Saved by Jet-Skiing Comedian
The Quiet Dignity of Bears
Get Happier
Is "Illegal Immigrant" Offensive, Accurate or Both?
ISIS's Self-Destruct Button
The Cuddle Cure
Targeted by Putin
Selma's Fictional LBJ
What Cubans and Mormons Have in Common
The Read Meets the Spiel
Beyond Death Cults and Nihilism
Extra: Xavier Dphrepaulezz, aka Fantastic Negrito
He Wanted to Be a Millionaire
Kick-Ass Commando Weathermen
Hit the Road, Union Jack
Letter-Perfect Solution
The Most Interesting Man We Know
Melody As Smoking Gun
North Korea's Former Poet Laureate
The Detox Detox
The One-Man Beautification Plan
Caffeine: Shot by Shot
The Passion of the Christie
Microsoft's Imperfect 10
The Five-Second Story
Fraunces Tavern Bombing
George Costanza vs. ISIS
Learning Styles Over Substance
Bull in a Vagina Shop
Where Are America's Terrorist Cells?
Should You Buy the Fitbit?
Is "Don't Be Evil" More Than a Slogan?
A Better Name for 11
If LBJ Faced Today's Congress
Shh! ASMR Isn't Real
A Poet Goes to MerCon
The Right to Remain Uncivil
Mario Cuomo's Missed Career in Stand-Up
Redial-a-Song
Give Me Liberty or Give Me … Liberté
Al Michaels Has the Call
Abraham Grinchstein
Are You Sure He Had a Red Nose?
Grin and Bear It
Bad Movies, Good Podcast
Too Beautiful to Stop
For Dana Gould, Editing Is No Laughing Matter
Ten Years To 'StartUp'
Marc Maron on the Best Podcast Episode Ever
Cut Off From a Sex Life Too Soon
Shakesbeer
Is "Mother's Intuition" Real?
Goodness Gracious: Great Bio of Fire
The Uruguayan in Chief
Tap the Holiday Spirit
Orchestral Snoring on the Trans-Siberian Railway
The Duck Face Facial Regime
Learning Little From the Near-Death Experience
The Mingus Method for Toilet Training Cats
The Thunder-Throat Hope Behind Macy's Floats
Demons and Spirits
The Moist Birdie Debate
The Buck Starts Here
The Kitsch of Death
Afghanistan: 13 Years and Counting
Don't Call It a Comeback
Pumpkin Spice in July? That's Too Soon
To Catch a Professor
The Sweet Smell of Survival
Did Smarf Have to Die?
Heroes Need Not Apply
Why WKRP Was Called WKRP
We Know Less Than We Think
Friends With (Slate Plus) Benefits
Veteran SNL Writer Asks "Who Tooted?"
JFK's Brain Is Missing
Does When We Eat Matter?
Two Families, One Mortgage
Starving Jake Gyllenhaal
If Washington Hips to Indie Rock
Why Political Consultants Prescribe Bumpkin
Don't Get Ebola in Missouri
High Times Rolls On
Tastes Like James Joyce
We Work Hard For Less Money
Soup Was Once Hilarious
The Serial Podcast Ending Is TBD
Norman Lear, Thanks for TV
Thanks Bro, Now Get the Hell Out of Feminism
The Eight-Glasses-of-Water-a-Day Myth
Working On Our Night Moves
George Carlin Gets His Way
My Friend Became a Staunch Anti-Vaxxer. Now What?
Rogue Taxidermy, Art for Awful Dreams
Bedbugs: Disgusting Nuisance, Great Musical
Math vs. Ebola
Qatar: Friend or Frenemy?
Stop Freaking Out About Your Kids
The Cosby Showdown
Can Peeps Be Sticky Year-Round?
True Tales of Andy Warhol's Sex Couch
Louisiana Isn't Boot-Shaped Anymore
His Friends Know He Cheated. Does She?
Where Did the Fade-Out Go?
Why Economists Don't Have Many Friends
The Analogy That Helped Sell Viagra
Is "Tomato Ketchup" Redundant?
Xavier Dphrepaulezz, Musician Reborn
The Police's Stewart Copeland Scores a Silent Film
Comedian Jen Kirkman Doesn't Want Kids. Cue Outrage.
Ken Follett's Case for Long Novels
Chanteuse Storm Large Subtly Accuses Miley Cyrus of Mass Murder
Why Do I Keep Accidentally Dating Swingers?
Did You See Obama Pull a John Wayne?
Tips for Prosecuting Ray Rice
Reductio Ad Hitlerum
Dan Carlin on the Art of the Retreat
Stop Calling Teaching a Calling. It's a Profession.
A Brilliant Cellist Embraces the Devil's Music
The Almost Mystical Yet Totally Routine Process of Reading
Can Naps Make You Feel Worse?
The Thing I Need To Do Before "I Do"
Gilbert Gottfried Speaks for the Birds
Happy People in Love … Boring
Puppies Don't Win Pulitzers
The Bomb Makers' Bomb Maker
The Proud Mom of 23 Could-Be Kids
Is Infidelity Still a Third Rail for TV?
Dude, on the Set of the Big Lebowski
Hillary's Early Primary Polling
Baby Panda vs. George Washington
Is That Ferguson or Selma?
In Ukraine, Even the Flags Are Clashing
Would You Report a Creepy Correspondence?
The Pursuit of Happiness Studies
The Vin Scully of Horseracing Retires
Crazy Funny
Elizabeth Gilbert's Secret to Never Being Boring
Come Together
Chris Gethard Shows Off His Guns
What Made Hitler Hitler?
Sioux Falls Has a New Flag, and It's Quite Fetching
What Poker Has to Teach Us About Missile Defense Systems
Urban Biking: A Love Story
We're Terrible at Reading Online
Why Does Tomato Juice Taste Better on an Airplane?
Would You Let Your Husband Road Trip With an Ex?
Who's Better Off: A Roman Emperor, or You?
Should Clothing Ever Be Optional?
When Does A Civilian Become A Combatant?
NYPD Cold Case from 100 Years Ago, and the Victim Was a Cop
Does Putin Know When to Fold 'Em?
Comic, Sans Its Hero
Your Brain on Bandwidth Poverty
Why Is Mike Pesca So Happy?
David Plotz Is Out, Panda Blogs Are In
Her Husband's Stupid Record Collection
This Guy Killed Hitler. All He Wants Is a Thank-You.
Inside the Principal's Office
Warren G. Harding in Love
Today, It's a Pot-Cast
Emotions Are Contagious, but Probably Not on Facebook
Philly, in Black and White
What Happens on Amish Spring Break Stays in Florida
Taking (a Fake) One for the Team
The Diplomat Who F--ked Up
I Believe That We Will Win
Scalia Just Wants to Have Fun
Hey U.N. Secretary-General … You Got Served!
Is Dick Cheney the Least Qualified Iraq Expert Ever?
The Sinister Business of Advertising to Kids
Does the Minimum Wage Create or Kill Jobs?
Should We Ditch Internet Comments?
Dirty Laundry? There's an App for That
Should Ruth Bader Ginsburg Just Quit Already?
Blame Salt-n-Pepa for American Glottal Stop
Polls Say the Darndest Things
13 Days a Beatle
A Mass of Mass Shootings
Zen and Beef Jerky at the World Series of Poker
Freakonomics Is Basically a Peanut Butter Cup
Fancy Private College vs. Good-Enough U
The Downside of Waiting for More Marshmallows
Does Obama Need More Drama?
Negotiating with Terrorists
How a Comedian Chooses Just the Right Words
Why Math Matters
Will Racism Die When Today's Racists Die?
The Vicious Circle of Mass Shooting Media Coverage
Reinvigorating Reparations
The Role of Empathy in Israeli Peace Negotiations
Springtime for Hitler's Stolen Art
The Guy Who Started "Retweets Don't Equal Endorsements"
Weren't You in That Movie …?
Inside the Jill Abramson Firing
Elections in India, Debates in Idaho
Should The Wildlings Be on The Terrorism Watch List?
Smithies Dis Chris, Coaches Corner
Signifiers: Headphones, Beards & The Washington Monument
Bankers and Internet Outrage and All These Ands
Has the U.S. Crowdsourced Foreign Policy?
Slate's The Gist with Mike Pesca: Why Are Online Quizzes All the Rage?
Slate's The Gist with Mike Pesca: Russian Reality, Colonial Bestiality
Slate's The Gist With Mike Pesca: Episode the First
Promo: The Gist of the Gist