Hosting today’s Gist is <a href="https://twitter.com/radiosmith">Robert Smith</a> from <a href="http://www.npr.org/sections/money/">NPR’s Planet Money</a>. On the show, he’ll talk to <a href="https://twitter.com/linamkhan">Lina Khan</a>, whose research encouraging tighter regulations on Amazon caught some heat from the company’s general counsel. Khan works at the Open Markets Program, formerly housed under the New America Foundation. And in the Spiel, Robert Smith observes a new trend in broadcast news: reporters becoming heroes on live television. What could possibly go wrong? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices">podcastchoices.com/adchoices</a>

Choosing Who Gets Flooded

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.