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. Hear 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 plainenglish@spotify.com! You can also find us on tiktok at www.tiktok.com/@plainenglish_
Episodes
Showing 20 of 149- The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company6/26/202654 min
- The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost.6/23/202657 min
- The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft6/19/20261 hr 8 min
- The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years6/16/202659 min
- Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power6/12/20261 hr 2 min
- How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains6/9/20261 hr 4 min
- What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity6/5/202656 min
- The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis6/2/202659 min
- Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It5/29/202658 min
- The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America5/22/202659 min
- Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis?5/19/20261 hr 2 min
- The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think5/15/20261 hr 1 min
- The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse5/12/202653 min
- Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff5/8/20261 hr 1 min
- One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match5/5/202645 min
- Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success5/1/202650 min
- Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart4/28/202658 min
- The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies4/24/20261 hr 11 min
- The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet4/21/20261 hr 2 min
- The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy4/14/20261 hr 4 min