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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Episodes (401)
A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy
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Why Are Americans So Unhealthy? Part I: Is Ultra-Processed Food Killing Us?
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What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health
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Plain History: How Adolf Hitler Destroyed German Democracy in Six Months
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Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Is Great for the "Stealthy Wealthy"
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The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life
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The Rules of Attraction and the Psychology of Romance
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Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse
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Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?
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Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?
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The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red
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Megapod: The Crisis in American Science
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Is This the Chinese Century?
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What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD
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An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life
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A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry
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Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China
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Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression
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Trump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen
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Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order
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Plain History: The Gilded Age
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ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein
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How Gen Z Sees the World
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Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer?
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How AI Could Change the Future of Music
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The End of Reading
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'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live)
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Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk
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The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out
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Is There a Scientific Case for Believing in God?
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Fraud, Scandal, and Failure in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease
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The Energy Story of the Moment: The Unstoppable Rise of Solar Vs. the Unmovable...
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The 5 Types of Wealth
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Are GLP-1 Drugs "the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of the 21st Century"?
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Tech Talk: AI Supremacy, TikTok’s Fate, and Crypto Decadence
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Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield?
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What's the Truth About Alcohol, Cancer, and Your Health?
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The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must...
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‘The Anti-Social Century’: America’s Epidemic of Solitude—and How to Fix It
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The Big 2025 Economy Forecast: AI and Big Tech, Nuclear’s Renaissance, Trump vs....
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The Year's Biggest Breakthroughs in Science and Tech (Feat.: OK, But Seriously,...
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A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S.
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The Productivity Paradox: Why Less Is More With Oliver Burkeman
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Why American Health Care Is a "Broken System"
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Is Crypto Entering a New Golden Age—or Just a New Era of Failed Promises?
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Megapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology?
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Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America’s Broken Public-Health Discour...
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The Self-Driving Revolution Is Real—and It Could Be Spectacular
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How Trump Won: Young Men’s Red Wave, the Blue-City Flop, and the Incumbency Grav...
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How to Watch Election Night Without Falling for Conspiracy Theories or False Hop...
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