Plain English with Derek Thompson
Longtime Atlantic tech, culture and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his new podcast Plain English. Watch Derek and guests engage the news with clear viewpoints and memorable takeaways. New episodes drop every Tuesday and Friday, and if you've got a topic you want discussed, shoot us an email at [email protected]! Subscribe to our YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/@PlainEnglishwithDerek...
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The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything”
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"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs"
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The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News
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Plain English BEST OF: What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
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Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
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Plain English BEST OF: The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, Ac...
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Plain English BEST OF: The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality for th...
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Plain English BEST OF: If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be...
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Plain English BEST OF: What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental He...
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Plain English BEST OF: How Gen Z Sees the World
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Plain English BEST OF: A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy
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Plain English BEST OF: The Antisocial Century
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Plain English BEST OF: How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel
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A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation
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The American Math Crisis
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How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics
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Everything Is Television
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Are Young People Screwed?
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The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula
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How the American Revolution Changed the World, With Ken Burns
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The Problem With Sports Gambling
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Michael Lewis on How the Global Financial Crisis Explains Trump, Crypto, and Eve...
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What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs
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Can "Touch-Grass Populism" Save America?
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Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong?
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The Future of Entertainment, Part 2: What’s the Matter With Broadway?
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The Future of Entertainment, Part 1: Is Hollywood's Business Model Broken?
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Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America
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Is AI Really About to Solve Human Disease?
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How America Became a Nation of "Free Speech Hypocrites"
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What’s the Matter With America’s Food?
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This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst
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The Jimmy Kimmel Saga and America's Free-Speech Crisis
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If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them?
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Charlie Kirk's Killing and America's Age of "Salad-Bar Extremism"
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America in the Age of Diagnosis
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Trumponomics Explained, Part 2: The Enshittification of American Power
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What Is Trumponomics? Part 1: How Donald Trump Is Breaking American Capitalism
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The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year St...
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Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern World
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The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the Worse
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Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking?
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The New Geography of Housing in America
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The Demise of Late-Night TV Is an Omen for American Culture
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If Trump’s Economic Ideas Are So Bad, Why Isn’t the U.S. Economy Doing Much Wors...
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Fertility Needs a Scientific Revolution
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The Mysterious Rise of Major Injuries in Professional Sports
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How Abundance Won in California
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What's Next for the Middle East: War, Peace, or Revolution?
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NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani on Abundance, Socialism, and How to Change...
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