Podcast Episode · The Gist · April 24 · 34m

She was born in San Francisco, went to Stanford, and became one of the best freestyle skiers in the world. But why is she competing for China? Mike Pesca reports on the story of Eileen Gu.

Sam Kahn, Mike Pesca, Christine Rosen, and Yascha Mounk take a look at the news this week.

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Plus: The phone grinch takes over New York schools, Trump’s Epstein drawing is underwhelming & Texas A&M fires teachers over viral student video.

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How I cover Israel, and why context matters.

Plus: The cold war with Russia is getting colder, what Putin really wants in a land swap & Oklahoma’s anti-woke test.

Plus: A disgraced former president’s phantom campaign, how a round of golf changed Trump’s mind on Putin & why the Pacific Northwest had so many serial killers.

Plus: The repatriation battle over a Martian meteorite, a never-ending carjacking story & how Navalny almost got released on a U.S. prisoner swap.

The CDC under fire and the perils of simple explanations.

Plus: A psychedelic church win, Trump orders the National Guard to D.C. & the demand for MAID.

"Misinformation and disinformation" are the new "Fame and Fortune" or "Millionaires and Billionaires" - they're different, and one is a lot more serious.

The U.S. burns $10 million in contraception. Plus: Chechen warlord almost drowns, Candace Owens’ genius defense & NYC youth employment program workers steal $17 million.

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Turns out, our squash campaign was no match for 43 billion bugs — or the laws of ecology.

ALT: a man with a red face is standing in a space ship and saying it 's a trap .

UPENN and 60 Minutes grovel and roll over. Plus: The Diddy verdict, the Dalai Lama’s birthday message to China & can ICE actually do that?

Why won't Mamdani renounce “Globalize the Intifada”? I sit down with Pesca to talk Mamdani, politics, campus antisemitism; somehow we end up on Fountains of Wayne.