Archive - Mike Pesca

Reverse Dorian Gray: The Tale of Bill Pulte

Plus: Why Florida’s 21st can’t seem to get a good representative, the Coast Guard’s swastika downgrade, and why Americans suddenly love gerrymandering.

4 hrs ago •

The Wire Episode That Ground Baltimore to a Halt

Plus: Bear-suit bureaucrats in Japan, gay sheep couture, and why Futurism wants you terrified of chatbots.

Nov 20 •

Could Someone, Anyone, Please Get the Unfairness of Gerrymandering Right?

FINE. It'll have to be me.

Nov 19 •

Beast Mode Diplomacy

Plus: John Oliver’s junk sale to save public media, the NPC saving the Ukrainians & a town that finally nuked leaf blowers.

Nov 18 •

How the Wealthy Are Living in Their Own Universe

Plus: The teensy clue that helped catch the Golden State Killer, the drama unfolding in Miss Universe & is Georgia’s new Trump prosecutor doing his best…

Nov 17 •

Tariffs and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Checkout Line

Plus: Seattle’s shame-based policing, the great tchotchke inheritance crisis, and why social-work degrees come with mandatory emotional torment.

Nov 14 •

Swiping Right on Democracy

Plus: Is “low-carbon beef” a branding exercise, how online gambling is hollowing out the Philippines & Can China flip a kill switch on U.K. buses?

Nov 13 •

Mike Pesca x Matt Robison LIVE

I’m going live with Matt Robison on Thursday, Nov. 13 at 3:00 p.m. ET.

Nov 12 •

Here's how to rebut 'genocide' like vaccine denialism

'This is not in the world of the subjective,' Mike Pesca explains.

Published on They Stand Corrected • Nov 12

Al-Qaeda Iverson

Plus: The case of Atlanta’s missing $600 million, Europe gets inundated with drones & why soccer fans’ brains short-circuit at kickoff.

Nov 11 •

Dems-They Breaks

Plus: Palantir’s anti-college crusade, Trump’s fainting fiasco, a 50-year elephant friendship, and a $1M “way-finding” mystery.

Nov 10 •

Trillion Dollar Baby

Plus: The GOAT of investing retires from Congress, Duolingo goes to therapy (and tanks), and Swiss farmers are drowning in milk

Nov 7 •

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