BLT: Bacon, Lettuce, and Todd

Promo: The Gist of the Gist

Slate’s The Gist With Mike Pesca: Episode the First

Slate’s The Gist with Mike Pesca: Russian Reality, Colonial Bestiality

Slate’s The Gist with Mike Pesca: Why Are Online Quizzes All the Rage?

Altman Almighty

Character Under Fire: Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the Costs of Conviction

David Graham on The Project and the Plan to Remake American Government

Jocelyn Benson on Being a Purposeful / Purple State Warrior

Henry Abbott on the Logistics of Ballistics