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 | ||
| Weren’t You in That Movie …? | 2014-05-19 | ||
| Inside the Jill Abramson Firing | 2014-05-16 | ||
| Elections in India, Debates in Idaho | 2014-05-15 | ||
| Should The Wildlings Be on The Terrorism Watch List? | 2014-05-14 | ||
| Smithies Dis Chris, Coaches Corner | 2014-05-13 | ||
| Signifiers: Headphones, Beards & The Washington Monument | 2014-05-12 | ||
| Bankers and Internet Outrage and All These Ands | 2014-05-09 | ||
| Has the U.S. Crowdsourced Foreign Policy? | 2014-05-08 | ||
| Slate’s The Gist with Mike Pesca: Why Are Online Quizzes All the Rage? | 2014-05-07 | ||
| Slate’s The Gist with Mike Pesca: Russian Reality, Colonial Bestiality | 2014-05-06 | ||
| Slate’s The Gist With Mike Pesca: Episode the First | 2014-05-05 | ||
| Promo: The Gist of the Gist | 2014-05-03 |