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Plain English with Derek Thompson

Longtime tech, culture, and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his podcast Plain English. Hear Derek and guests engage the news with clear viewpoints and memorable takeaways. New episodes drop weekly, and if you’ve got a topic you want discussed, shoot us an email at plainenglish@spotify.com.

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39:25

Why Everything Is Going to Keep Getting More Expensive | Plain English

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1:00:28

Higher Education’s Age of "Insufferable Hypocrisy" | Plain English

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1:15:35

It May Be Time to Freak Out About AI | Plain English

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1:00:31

Why Americans Hate Data Centers | Plain English

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1:07:01

Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed | Plain English

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51:10

"The End of Reading Is Here" | Plain English

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56:59

What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' | Plain English

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126K views

1:01:13

Why 'The Odyssey' Is the West’s Greatest Story | Plain English

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55:37

A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird | Plain English

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11K views

1:02:23

How Israel Is Transforming American Politics | Plain English

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1:07:09

MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived | Plain English

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53:52

A Surprising Theory About the Future of War | Plain English

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51:15

SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company | Plain English

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3.9K views

54:17

The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost. | Plain English

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1:05:38

The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft | Plain English

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56:36

The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years | Plain English

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59:27

Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power | Plain English

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1:01:58

How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains | Plain English

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53:33

What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity | Plain English

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56:24

The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis | Plain English

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55:48

Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It

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Shared 3 months ago

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56:47

The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America | Plain English

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59:25

Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis? | Plain English

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58:58

The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think | Plain English

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50:53

The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse | Plain English

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5.7K views

58:19

Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff | Plain English

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11K views

42:48

One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match | Plain English

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Shared 3 months ago

1.3K views

47:17

Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success | Plain English

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2.4K views

55:52

Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart | Plain English

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Shared 4 months ago

5.2K views

1:08:29

The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies | Plain English

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59:52

The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet | Plain English

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Shared 4 months ago

3.7K views

1:01:38

The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy | Plain English

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1.5K views

1:04:42

‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’ | Plain English

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2.9K views

1:06:24

America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage | Plain English

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4K views

49:45

Is China the Winner of the Iran War? | Plain English

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46:39

‘Shitty Flow’—and Why We’re Addicted to It

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1:00:35

Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway. | Plain English

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1:02:51

America's Tax System Is Broken | Plain English

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1:09:47

The Casino-ification of America | Plain English

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1:07:45

"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question." | Plain English

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1:09:51

The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake | Plain English

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849 views

53:50

The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Goes Far Beyond Oil | Plain English

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1:02:17

"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology" | Plain English

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39:49

Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond? | Plain English

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Shared 5 months ago

737 views

53:53

The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End | Plain English

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Shared 5 months ago

8.9K views

1:01:20

How Metrics Make Us Miserable | Plain English

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Shared 6 months ago

1.6K views

1:05:24

The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks | Plain English

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5.5K views

39:29

The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs. Now What? | Plain English

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Shared 6 months ago

868 views

1:01:00

The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything” | Plain English

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Shared 6 months ago

3.1K views

1:04:13

"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs" | Plain English

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Shared 6 months ago

10K views

1:08:43

The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News | Plain English

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Shared 6 months ago

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