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Mike Pesca on The Good Fight Club

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Bill McKibben: "Energy From Heaven, Not From Hell"

303

Aaron Sibarium on Charlie Kirk, Retribution, and the Cycle of Violence

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Ryan Evans on Drones, Ground War, and Ukraine's Fight for Survival

305

Nim Shapira: Torn Between Empathy and Erasure

306

Christine Wenc: The Onion's Straight Face Made It Funnier

307

Immigration, Nuance, and a Leonhardt Vault Cut

308

Mike Hayes on Purpose, Grit, and Mission

309

Not Even Mad: Galen Druke and Josh Barro

310

Miles Taylor on Resistance Cascades, Rubio's Turn, and Testing the Judiciary

311

Ex-DHS Chief Miles Taylor: Trump, Treason, and Executive Power

312

Governor Wes Moore on Baltimore's Historic Drop in Homicides, Plus Laura Loomer's Lunacy

313

Edward Wong: At the Edge of Empire, China, Family, and Power

314

Nick Foster on How We Really Think About the Future

315

Inside a Fat Camp named Shame

316

Trump's Mortgage Attacks and Kessler on Weight Loss

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David Kessler on Why Junk Food Is America's Nicotine

318

Trump's Long Game and Miles Taylor's Warning

319

The Working Class Party with the Post-Graduate Jargon

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Not Even Mad: Rikki Schlott and Isaac Saul

321

CryptoDad's Pirate Clause: Reviving Letters of Marque

322

Rent-Stabilized and City-Run: Mamdani Rises as Rivals Flail

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Katja Hoyer on Germany's AFD and the Limits of Calling Someone a Nazi

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The Spiel Saturday Show

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The Cheesecake Factory Model of Freedom

326

When the Train to Hell Runs on Time

327

Rights You Can't Use

328

The Case for Good Anger

329

Rebecca Lemov and the Instability of Truth

330

Sarah Ruhl on Lessons from the Teachers Who Shaped Her

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Peter Moskos on NYC's Historic Crime Drop and the Lessons for Today

332

Steven Hahn Unmasks the Myth of Liberal America

333

Not Her Type: E. Jean Carroll vs. The President

334

High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble

335

Pay to Play: The NCAA's Big Payout Era Begins

336

Puzzling The Puzzle Master on The Puzzler

337

The NIH vs. The New Grievance Politics

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Airborne Assumptions and Subventilated Science

339

How to Make Crime Feel Weird

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The Algorithm Is Hollywood's New God

341

When Hulk Turned Heel

342

Mike Pesca talks NPR Funding on The 21st Show

343

Phil Gramm Hearts Capitalism, From Dickens To The New Deal

344

Not Even Mad - Zee Cohen-Sanchez and Jesse Adams

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Ben Smith On Truth At A Lower Resolution

346

The Bliss Gene And The Burden Of Mood

347

RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary

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Live From America with Mike Pesca

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Funny You Should Mention: Trae Crowder

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Jake Tapper: Original Sin, Ongoing Fracturing

351

The Great Lantern Fly Freakout: Is That BS?

352

The War After the War: Hamas and Israel

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Chris and Paul Weitz say Murderbot Doesn't Want to Be a Real Boy

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Checking Bags and Attitudes

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Poker Face Goes To Interesting Places

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NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer

357

The Loyalty Trap: Inside the 2024 Biden-Harris Collapse

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Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers

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The Un "Fudge" America Tour Gets "Fudged" From Within

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Cascade PBS: Tapper, Thompson, and Pesca

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Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer's Political Past and America's Appetite for Spectacle

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The Bane of the Blue Collar

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Big Beautiful Blunder

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Escaping the Nazis. Then Going Back

365

The Cuomo Special

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The Wars We Carry: From Iraq To Port-au-Prince

367

Closed Schools, Closed Minds

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The High Point of Mt. Mamdani?

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Tehran Target Acquired...Damaged...Destroyed...Debated

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Fordow The Mop Tolls

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Chuck Todd and Mike Pesca Join On The Chuck ToddCast

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Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker

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Pesca Plus Special: Arlie Hochschild

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Unsympathetic Empathy

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Helen Lewis on Dead Parents, Paper Animals, And The Politics of Genius

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What Could Go Right, And Why We Rarely Hear About It

377

The Gist List Live with Kat Rosenfield

378

Putting Death Metal On Your Plants Playlist: Is That Bs?

379

Not Even Mad: Allison Schraeger and Matt Yglesias

380

Inside the Only Trump Trial (So Far)

381

The Ghost Lab — Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Government Distrust in the Granite State

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Jay Inslee vs. the Climate Polling Problem

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The Gist List Live with Ben Dreyfuss

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Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner

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Lawless: A Storm of Shade and Sneering

386

Getting on Leah Litman's Case

387

Revolutionary Fog and Folly

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Obama's Elon

389

Mike Stops by The Reason Roundtable

390

Ben Ansell on FAFO, FADFO, and the Myth of Immediate Consequence

391

Bark Buttons: "Who Let the Dogs Talk?"

392

Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t

393

Pig Sacrifices and Talking Drums: Don't Squeeze the Shaman

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The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss

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Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman

396

Realign for Palestine

397

Not Even Mad: Eli Lake, Michael Cohen on Biden's Health, and the New Human-Rights-Free Foreign Policy

398

Inside the Movement to Dismantle Democracy in God's Name

399

Katherine Stewart on Christian Nationalism's Influence on Conservatism

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Alexa, What's with the Pope's Brother?