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 | ||
| Journalists Aren’t Activists | 2020-01-18 | ||
| Dave Eggers and the Struggle of Satire | 2020-01-17 | ||
| The Wasted Debate | 2020-01-16 | ||
| Forgiveness by Fiat | 2020-01-15 | ||
| The Issue With Oscar Noms | 2020-01-14 | ||
| Marianne Williamson Teleports Away | 2020-01-11 | ||
| The Final Great Jeopardy! Game | 2020-01-10 | ||
| What’s John Bolton’s Game? | 2020-01-09 | ||
| 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 |