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 | ||
| Inside the Biggest Pyramid Scheme Ever | 2017-02-01 | ||
| The New Queens of Satire | 2017-02-01 | ||
| Up in the Air | 2017-01-30 | ||
| Yeah, We’re Scared Too | 2017-01-27 | ||
| Deregulation Nation | 2017-01-26 | ||
| Don’t Mind Us, We’re Just Collapsing | 2017-01-25 | ||
| The Problem With Tracking Hate | 2017-01-24 | ||
| The Truth About Vitamin C | 2017-01-23 | ||
| A Bet Against Reality | 2017-01-21 | ||
| The 12-Step Program of Highly Effective People | 2017-01-19 | ||
| Trial by Firing Line | 2017-01-19 | ||
| Can The Democrats Obstruct Everything for Four Years? | 2017-01-17 | ||
| Jamelle Bouie on the Trump Cabinet | 2017-01-13 | ||
| How Should We Talk About Whiteness? | 2017-01-13 | ||
| Twenty-Four Grueling Hours in Trumpland | 2017-01-11 | ||
| How the Onion Remade Joe Biden | 2017-01-11 | ||
| The Secret to Meaningful Work | 2017-01-09 | ||
| Unpacking Peanuts | 2017-01-07 | ||
| The Paradox of Shaving | 2017-01-05 | ||
| Mara Wilson’s Post–Child Star Life | 2017-01-04 |