The Gist Creators & Guests

Mike Pesca is an American radio journalist and podcaster based in New York City. He is the host of Slate magazine's daily podcast, The Gist and the editor of Upon Further Review:The Greatest What-Ifs in Sports History.

Podcast Producer

Pierre Bienaimé is a senior podcast producer at Digiday and current producer of The Gist Podcast.

Joel Patterson is the founder of The Vested Group and author.

Dan Pashman is the creator and host of WNYC's James Beard Award-nominated food Podcast The Sporkful. He is also the host of Cooking Channel's James Beard Award-nominated web series You're Eating It Wrong.

Andrew Slavitt is a former Acting Administrator of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

Jill Lepore is a historian and a Staff Writer at The New Yorker, She writes about history, law, literature, and politics.

Elizabeth Williamson is a journalist, writer, and author.

Daniel Kingsley Povenmire is an animator, voice actor, director, writer, producer, storyboard artist, and musician associated with several animated television series.

Matthew Cothron served in the Marine Corps as a bomb-sniffing dog handler during the Iraq War. He received a Purple Heart for his service. He is medically retired and an active supporter of K9s For Warriors , a veteran support group providing service dogs for veterans afflicted with post traumatic stress disorder. He was a Military Police Officer.

Noah Bookbinder is an executive director of Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington and a former federal corruption prosecutor.

Scaachi Koul is a culture writer, currently reporting for BuzzFeed Canada, and hosts the Scamfluencers podcast. She was a reporter on BuzzFeed's Netflix documentary series "Follow This."Previously, Koul worked at Penguin Random House Canada. Prior to that, she was an intern at Maclean's magazine.Koul's first book, "One Day We'll All Be Dead and None of This Will Matter," was published in 2017. Her work has appeared in Flare, HuffPost Canada, The Thought Catalog, The Guardian, The New Yorker, The New York Times, and The Globe and Mail.

Evan McMorris-Santoro is a political journalist. Currently, he is a reporter for the Allbritton Journalism Institute.Previously, McMorris-Santoro was Enterprise correspondent at CNN. Before that, he was a correspondent on "Vice News Tonight" on HBO, a White House Reporter for BuzzFeed, a National Political Reporter for TPM Media, and staff writer of "The Hotline" for the National Journal.

Thomas Abt is a writer, senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and author of the book, Bleeding Out.

Richard Alan Clarke is an American former government official. He was National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection, and Counter-terrorism for the United States between 1998 to 2003.

Dr. Jeffrey Shaman focuses on climate, atmospheric science, and hydrology, as well as biology and studies the environmental determinants of infectious disease transmission and infectious disease forecast.

Robert Draper is an American journalist, and author, he is a correspondent for GQ and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine. Previously, he worked for the Texas Monthly.

Joseph Samuel Nye Jr. is an American political scientist. He is the co-founder of the international relations theory of neoliberalism, developed in their 1977 book Power and Interdependence.

Jonathan Levinson is a multimedia reporter and producer for Oregon Public Broadcasting.