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 | ||
| The Case of "The Case of Al Franken" | 2019-08-03 | ||
| How Fantastic Negrito Started From Scratch | 2019-08-02 | ||
| Chuck Klosterman and the Ivory Tower | 2019-08-01 | ||
| The Consultants of Yore Weigh in on 2020 | 2019-07-31 | ||
| How the GOP Got Here | 2019-07-30 | ||
| The Lie of Live PD | 2019-07-25 | ||
| Mueller Is No Showman | 2019-07-25 | ||
| How to Talk About Addiction | 2019-07-24 | ||
| Robert Mueller's Return | 2019-07-23 | ||
| The Moon Landing's Glory Has Faded | 2019-07-19 | ||
| How Michael Bennet Wants to Fix America | 2019-07-18 | ||
| The EPA Is Losing Its Mandate | 2019-07-18 | ||
| Trump Will Lose in 2020 | 2019-07-17 | ||
| Bring Back Late-Night Cruelty | 2019-07-16 | ||
| Acosta Is Out | 2019-07-13 | ||
| The CIA's Bad Ideas | 2019-07-12 | ||
| Soccer's Pay Parity Problem | 2019-07-11 | ||
| The Legacy of Ross Perot | 2019-07-10 | ||
| Life After Death Row | 2019-07-09 | ||
| Let's Rank the Presidents | 2019-07-03 |