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Sarah Ruhl on Lessons from the Teachers Who Shaped Her
35 mins; August 09, 2025
Peter Moskos on NYC’s Historic Crime Drop and the Lessons for Today
39 mins; August 08, 2025
Steven Hahn Unmasks the Myth of Liberal America
37 mins; August 07, 2025
Not Her Type: E. Jean Carroll vs. The President
41 mins; August 06, 2025
High Stakes, Low Standards: America's Gambling Gamble
38 mins; August 05, 2025
Pay to Play: The NCAA’s Big Payout Era Begins
35 mins; August 04, 2025
Puzzling The Puzzle Master on The Puzzler
38 mins; August 02, 2025
The NIH vs. The New Grievance Politics
37 mins; August 01, 2025
Airborne Assumptions and Subventilated Science
45 mins; July 31, 2025
How to Make Crime Feel Weird
36 mins; July 30, 2025
The Algorithm Is Hollywood’s New God
32 mins; July 29, 2025
When Hulk Turned Heel
32 mins; July 28, 2025
Mike Pesca talks NPR Funding on The 21st Show
28 mins; July 26, 2025
Phil Gramm Hearts Capitalism, From Dickens To The New Deal
37 mins; July 25, 2025
Not Even Mad - Zee Cohen-Sanchez and Jesse Adams
54 mins; July 24, 2025
Ben Smith On Truth At A Lower Resolution
45 mins; July 23, 2025
The Bliss Gene And The Burden Of Mood
32 mins; July 22, 2025
RFK Jr.: Sophist, Saboteur, Snake Oil Secretary
32 mins; July 21, 2025
Live From America with Mike Pesca
28 mins; July 19, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Trae Crowder
78 hours 28 mins; July 18, 2025
Jake Tapper: Original Sin, Ongoing Fracturing
55 mins; July 17, 2025
The Great Lantern Fly Freakout: Is That BS?
37 mins; July 16, 2025
The War After the War: Hamas and Israel
59 mins; July 15, 2025
Chris and Paul Weitz say Murderbot Doesn’t Want to Be a Real Boy
45 mins; July 14, 2025
Checking Bags and Attitudes
19 mins; July 12, 2025
Poker Face Goes To Interesting Places
40 mins; July 11, 2025
NEM: Carine Hajjar and Jeffrey Maurer
56 mins; July 10, 2025
The Loyalty Trap: Inside the 2024 Biden-Harris Collapse
37 mins; July 09, 2025
Iranian Would-Be Assassins and Shoe Would-Be Bombers
36 mins; July 08, 2025
The Un "Fudge" America Tour Gets "Fudged" From Within
43 mins; July 07, 2025
Cascade PBS: Tapper, Thompson, and Pesca
47 mins; July 05, 2025
Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer’s Political Past and America’s Appetite for Spectacle
38 mins; July 03, 2025
The Bane of the Blue Collar
45 mins; July 02, 2025
Big Beautiful Blunder
39 mins; July 01, 2025
Escaping the Nazis. Then Going Back
37 mins; June 30, 2025
The Cuomo Special
30 mins; June 28, 2025
The Wars We Carry: From Iraq To Port-au-Prince
36 mins; June 27, 2025
Closed Schools, Closed Minds
33 mins; June 26, 2025
The High Point of Mt. Mamdani?
35 mins; June 25, 2025
Tehran Target Acquired...Damaged...Destroyed...Debated
54 mins; June 24, 2025
Fordow The Mop Tolls
42 mins; June 23, 2025
Chuck Todd and Mike Pesca Join On The Chuck ToddCast
58 mins; June 21, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Rosebud Baker
63 hours 26 mins; June 20, 2025
Pesca Plus Special: Arlie Hochschild
39 mins; June 19, 2025
Unsympathetic Empathy
40 mins; June 18, 2025
Helen Lewis on Dead Parents, Paper Animals, And The Politics of Genius
41 mins; June 17, 2025
What Could Go Right, And Why We Rarely Hear About It
32 mins; June 16, 2025
The Gist List Live with Kat Rosenfield
52 mins; June 14, 2025
Putting Death Metal On Your Plants Playlist: Is That Bs?
33 mins; June 13, 2025
Not Even Mad: Allison Schraeger and Matt Yglesias
60 hours 16 mins; June 12, 2025
Inside the Only Trump Trial (So Far)
49 mins; June 11, 2025
The Ghost Lab — Bigfoot, Ghosts, and Government Distrust in the Granite State
35 mins; June 10, 2025
Jay Inslee vs. the Climate Polling Problem
35 mins; June 09, 2025
The Gist List Live with Ben Dreyfuss
54 mins; June 07, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Chris Turner
63 hours 17 mins; June 06, 2025
Lawless: A Storm of Shade and Sneering
34 mins; June 05, 2025
Getting on Leah Litman's Case
27 mins; June 04, 2025
Revolutionary Fog and Folly
37 mins; June 03, 2025
Obama’s Elon
40 mins; June 02, 2025
Mike Stops by The Reason Roundtable
32 mins; May 31, 2025
Ben Ansell on FAFO, FADFO, and the Myth of Immediate Consequence
39 mins; May 30, 2025
Bark Buttons: “Who Let the Dogs Talk?”
34 mins; May 29, 2025
Tusk Talk: Why Cuomo Leads and the Subways Smell Like Sh*t
42 mins; May 28, 2025
Pig Sacrifices and Talking Drums: Don't Squeeze the Shaman
40 mins; May 27, 2025
The Gist List Live w Ethan Strauss
38 mins; May 24, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Robby Hoffman
65 hours 58 mins; May 23, 2025
Realign for Palestine
34 mins; May 22, 2025
Not Even Mad: Eli Lake, Michael Cohen on Biden's Health, and the New Human-Rights-Free Foreign Policy
65 hours 48 mins; May 21, 2025
Inside the Movement to Dismantle Democracy in God’s Name
33 mins; May 20, 2025
Katherine Stewart on Christian Nationalism's Influence on Conservatism
37 mins; May 19, 2025
Alexa, What's with the Pope's Brother?
23 mins; May 17, 2025
Henry Abbott on the Logistics of Ballistics
38 mins; May 16, 2025
Jocelyn Benson on Being a Purposeful / Purple State Warrior
43 mins; May 15, 2025
David Graham on The Project and the Plan to Remake American Government
35 mins; May 14, 2025
Character Under Fire: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the Costs of Conviction
31 mins; May 13, 2025
Altman Almighty
30 mins; May 12, 2025
BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, and Todd
24 mins; May 10, 2025
Jim Lampley on the Blows That Made Broadcasting History
37 mins; May 09, 2025
Not Even Mad: Eric Zorn and Austin Berg
58 mins; May 08, 2025
Max Expression, Merz Confusion
40 mins; May 07, 2025
Holy Vehicles and Hollow Coverage
27 mins; May 06, 2025
Chuck Todd Presses On
38 mins; May 05, 2025
Mike Stops by House of Strauss and The Dispatch
65 hours 32 mins; May 03, 2025
Funny You Should Mention: Michelle Buteau
51 mins; May 02, 2025
Rust Director Joel Souza on Tragedy, Survival, and His Non-Relationship with Alec Baldwin
37 mins; May 01, 2025
What is Gen-Z Doing with Mewing?
32 mins; April 30, 2025
Hubris Maximus: The Shattering of Elon Musk
36 mins; April 29, 2025
Trump 47: It's Not a Heart Attack, It's Gingivitis
41 mins; April 28, 2025
The Full Ginsburg
22 mins; April 26, 2025
Iran-Contra wrote the Playbook for Presidential Lawlessness
39 mins; April 25, 2025
Punchlines and Straw Men
43 mins; April 24, 2025
When Experts Circle the Wagons, The Public Wanders Off
36 mins; April 23, 2025
Macedo and Frances Lee In Covid's Wake
36 mins; April 22, 2025
Kilmar, Detained and Unnamed
28 mins; April 21, 2025
Great Britain Chicken Friction
13 mins; April 19, 2025
Funny You Should Mention - T.J. Miller
51 mins; April 18, 2025
Not Even Mad: The Commercial Break’s Bryan Green and Carine Hajjar
58 mins; April 17, 2025
The Fight for the White House in 2024
45 mins; April 16, 2025
Four More Years?
31 mins; April 15, 2025
Trump’s Trade Tactics: Betwixt Chaos and Coherence
35 mins; April 14, 2025