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 (402)
What’s the Point of College?
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The New Book That Scares Big Tech
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AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet. Can We Save It?
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Why Everything Is Going to Keep Getting More Expensive
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Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’
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It May Be Time to Freak Out About AI
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Why Americans Hate Data Centers
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Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed
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"The End of Reading Is Here"
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What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey'
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Why 'The Odyssey' Is the West’s Greatest Story
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A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird
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How Israel Is Transforming American Politics
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MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived
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A Surprising Theory About the Future of War
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SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company
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The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost.
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The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft
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The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years
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Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power
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How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains
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What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity
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The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis
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Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It
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The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America
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Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis?
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The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think
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The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse
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Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff
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One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match
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Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success
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Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart
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The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies
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The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet
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The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy
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‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’
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America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage
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Is China the Winner of the Iran War?
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Why We're Addicted to ‘Sh*tty Flow’
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Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway.
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America's Tax System Is Broken
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The Casino-ification of America
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"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question."
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The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake
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The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Goes Far Beyond Oil
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"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology"
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Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond?
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The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End
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How Metrics Make Us Miserable
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The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks
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