The Gist

Elizabeth Stormborn, Mother of Democrats!

On The Gist, Rudy Giuliani was a big, loud, and busy distraction this past Sunday.
In the interview, it’s a round of “Is That Bullshit?” with Maria Konnikova. In the hot seat: the humble egg. A recent study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that eggs can increase your chances of heart disease. But is this study all it’s cracked up to be? The nutritional science has gone back and forth on the health benefits and risks of this breakfast food. Maria boils it down.
In the Spiel, dragons roast their victims—and we roast Elizabeth Warren’s Game of Thrones critique.
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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.