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 World’s Worst Extortion Racket | 2020-01-08 | ||
| Trump’s Iranian Connection | 2020-01-07 | ||
| Starting a War | 2020-01-04 | ||
| Julián Is Through-lian | 2020-01-03 | ||
| The Stories the Gist Skipped in 2019 | 2019-12-30 | ||
| Approving War Crimes? | 2019-12-23 | ||
| Ignoring Iowa | 2019-12-21 | ||
| The Democrats Hardly Knew Jeff Van Drew | 2019-12-20 | ||
| Pontius Pilate, Democrat | 2019-12-19 | ||
| Capitalism Won. Now What? | 2019-12-18 | ||
| The Youthful Power of Greta Thunberg | 2019-12-17 | ||
| The Kakistocracy Depends on the Cacophony | 2019-12-14 | ||
| The Politics of Humor | 2019-12-13 | ||
| Discredited Nincompoop Nunes Is (Slightly) Vindicated | 2019-12-12 | ||
| Expecting History to Judge | 2019-12-11 | ||
| Not a Point of Order | 2019-12-10 | ||
| The Truth Behind the Steele Dossier | 2019-12-07 | ||
| Biden Wants a Fight | 2019-12-06 | ||
| Making the Worse Argument | 2019-12-05 | ||
| Kamala Is Out | 2019-12-04 |