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 | ||
| 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 | ||
| O Say Can You Shut The Hell Up | 2015-10-05 | ||
| Campus Assault Surveys Say Too Little | 2015-10-02 | ||
| Field of Screens | 2015-10-01 | ||
| Cred And Ginger | 2015-09-30 | ||
| Pencil Shavings for Mr. Pesca | 2015-09-29 | ||
| Everybody Loves Eating | 2015-09-28 | ||
| Alison Brie Sex Scene Therapy | 2015-09-25 |