For thirty minutes each day, Pesca challenges himself and his audience, in a responsibly provocative style, and gets beyond the rigidity and dogma. The Gist is surprising, reasonable, and willing to critique the left, the right, either party, or any idea.
| Title | Date published | ||
| Prisoner Rehabilitation Is Not That Easy | 2015-11-03 | ||
| Ending Mass Incarceration Is Not That Easy | 2015-11-02 | ||
| Played by Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams, and Mark Ruffalo | 2015-10-30 | ||
| An Unforgettable Technique for Telling Riveting Stories | 2015-10-29 | ||
| Is Salt Still Bad for You? | 2015-10-29 | ||
| Unnatural … Pauses in “NPR Voice” | 2015-10-27 | ||
| Why Jeff Bezos Went From No. 1 to No. 87 | 2015-10-26 | ||
| Sarah Vowell on Marquis de Lafayette | 2015-10-23 | ||
| Less of a Hearing, More of a Talking | 2015-10-23 | ||
| Padding Your Résumé for President | 2015-10-21 | ||
| They Finally Won | 2015-10-20 | ||
| Giving the Freedom Caucus Its Due | 2015-10-19 | ||
| 1971: When the ’70s Started Sounding Like the ’70s | 2015-10-16 | ||
| Munitions and Menstruation | 2015-10-15 | ||
| The Clinton Cadence | 2015-10-14 | ||
| All the President’s Body Men | 2015-10-13 | ||
| Our First Latino Poet Laureate | 2015-10-09 | ||
| The Gist Live: Craig Finn from the Hold Steady | 2015-10-08 | ||
| The Gist Live: Making Interest Rates Interesting | 2015-10-07 | ||
| The Gist Live: Samantha Bee | 2015-10-06 |