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Plain English with Derek Thompson

The Ringer

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…

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The Six Lessons of the 2026 Midterms 2026-11-06 · 70m
The Midterms and the End of the Boomer Political Era 2026-11-03 · 73m
The Netflix Crisis Isn’t What It Seems 2026-10-30 · 54m
What Does Effective Altruism Really Believe? 2026-10-27 · 67m
The AI Story Wall Street Doesn't Want to Hear 2026-10-23 · 47m
AI Is Smarter Than Ever. So Where’s the Revolution? 2026-10-20 · 68m
How Abundance Has Failed and Succeeded 2026-10-16 · 63m
America’s Crisis of Social Connection, With Adam Grant 2026-10-13 · 63m
Russia’s Plague Mystery and the Coming Age of Bioweapons 2026-10-09 · 66m
The Bitter Rivalries Behind the Race to Build Superintelligence 2026-10-06 · 66m
Why the Midterms Suddenly Look So Bad for Republicans 2026-10-02 · 61m
Why Things Become Popular, with Chuck Klosterman 2026-09-29 · 89m
The Single Smartest Case Against AI Doom 2026-09-25 · 61m
The Truth About Mississippi's Education "Miracle" 2026-09-18 · 57m
Why Experts Keep Getting the Economy So Wrong 2026-09-15 · 59m
What’s the Point of College? 2026-09-11 · 57m
The New Book That Scares Big Tech 2026-09-08 · 59m
AI Slop Is Breaking the Internet. Can We Save It? 2026-09-01 · 56m
Why Everything Is Going to Keep Getting More Expensive 2026-08-25 · 42m
Higher Education’s Age of ‘Insufferable Hypocrisy’ 2026-08-18 · 63m
It May Be Time to Freak Out About AI 2026-08-14 · 78m
Why Americans Hate Data Centers 2026-08-11 · 63m
Why America Is Switching From Booze to Weed 2026-08-05 · 70m
"The End of Reading Is Here" 2026-07-28 · 54m
What Translator Emily Wilson Thinks of Christopher Nolan’s ‘The Odyssey' 2026-07-22 · 59m
Why 'The Odyssey' Is the West’s Greatest Story 2026-07-17 · 64m
A Philosopher’s One-Word Theory for Why the World Feels So Weird 2026-07-14 · 58m
How Israel Is Transforming American Politics 2026-07-07 · 65m
MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived 2026-07-03 · 70m
A Surprising Theory About the Future of War 2026-06-30 · 56m
SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company 2026-06-26 · 54m
The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost. 2026-06-23 · 57m
The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft 2026-06-19 · 68m
The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years 2026-06-16 · 59m
Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power 2026-06-12 · 62m
How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains 2026-06-09 · 64m
What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity 2026-06-05 · 56m
The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis 2026-06-02 · 59m
Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It 2026-05-29 · 58m
The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America 2026-05-22 · 59m
Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis? 2026-05-19 · 62m
The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think 2026-05-15 · 61m
The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse 2026-05-12 · 54m
Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff 2026-05-08 · 61m
One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match 2026-05-05 · 45m
Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success 2026-05-01 · 50m
Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart 2026-04-28 · 58m
The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies 2026-04-24 · 71m
The Most Powerful and Dangerous AI Model Yet 2026-04-21 · 62m
The Whole World Is Fighting About Energy 2026-04-14 · 64m
‘The Job Market for Young People Is Brutal’ 2026-04-10 · 67m
America's Religious Revival Is a Mirage 2026-04-08 · 69m
Is China the Winner of the Iran War? 2026-04-03 · 52m
Why We're Addicted to ‘Sh*tty Flow’ 2026-03-31 · 49m
Anthropic Thinks AI Might Destroy the Economy. It's Building It Anyway. 2026-03-27 · 63m
America's Tax System Is Broken 2026-03-24 · 65m
The Casino-ification of America 2026-03-20 · 72m
"Yes, AI Is a Bubble. There Is No Question." 2026-03-17 · 70m
The Pill That Works Even When You Know It's Fake 2026-03-13 · 72m
The Economic Crisis of the Iran War Goes Far Beyond Oil 2026-03-10 · 56m
"American Democracy as We Know It Might Not Survive This Technology" 2026-03-09 · 64m
Trump Is Doubling Down on Iran. How Should Democrats Respond? 2026-03-06 · 42m
The Four Ways That the Iran War Could End 2026-03-03 · 56m
How Metrics Make Us Miserable 2026-02-27 · 64m
The Future of GLP-1 Drugs and AI Medicine, With Eli Lilly CEO David Ricks 2026-02-24 · 68m
The Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump’s Tariffs. Now What? 2026-02-21 · 42m
The Media Theory That Explains “99% of Everything” 2026-02-17 · 63m
"America Isn’t Ready for What AI Will Do to Jobs" 2026-02-13 · 67m
The Meltdown at The Washington Post—and the Crisis in News 2026-02-11 · 71m
Plain English BEST OF: What’s the Matter With America’s Food? 2026-02-03 · 53m
Plain English BEST OF: This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst 2026-01-27 · 60m
Plain English BEST OF: The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year Study 2026-01-20 · 42m
Plain English BEST OF: The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality for the Worse 2026-01-13 · 47m
Plain English BEST OF: If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them? 2026-01-06 · 54m
Plain English BEST OF: What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health 2025-12-30 · 67m
Plain English BEST OF: How Gen Z Sees the World 2025-12-23 · 58m
Plain English BEST OF: A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy 2025-12-16 · 39m
Plain English BEST OF: The Antisocial Century 2025-12-09 · 68m
Plain English BEST OF: How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel 2025-12-02 · 66m
A Grand Unified Theory of Cultural Stagnation 2025-11-25 · 59m
The American Math Crisis 2025-11-21 · 54m
How Superintelligent AI Could Upend Work and Politics 2025-11-18 · 59m
Everything Is Television 2025-11-14 · 57m
Are Young People Screwed? 2025-11-12 · 53m
The Democrats Have a New Winning Formula 2025-11-07 · 61m
How the American Revolution Changed the World, With Ken Burns 2025-11-04 · 59m
The Problem With Sports Gambling 2025-10-31 · 55m
Michael Lewis on How the Global Financial Crisis Explains Trump, Crypto, and Everything Else 2025-10-28 · 72m
What Happens When AI Learns to Do Our Jobs 2025-10-24 · 54m
Can "Touch-Grass Populism" Save America? 2025-10-21 · 60m
Everybody Thinks AI Is a Bubble. What If They’re Wrong? 2025-10-17 · 52m
The Future of Entertainment, Part 2: What’s the Matter With Broadway? 2025-10-14 · 47m
The Future of Entertainment, Part 1: Is Hollywood's Business Model Broken? 2025-10-10 · 46m
Why Money Doesn't Buy Happiness in America 2025-10-07 · 49m
Is AI Really About to Solve Human Disease? 2025-10-03 · 54m
How America Became a Nation of "Free Speech Hypocrites" 2025-09-30 · 52m
What’s the Matter With America’s Food? 2025-09-26 · 53m
This Is How the AI Bubble Could Burst 2025-09-23 · 59m
The Jimmy Kimmel Saga and America's Free-Speech Crisis 2025-09-19 · 41m
If GLP-1 Drugs Are Good for Everything, Should We All Be on Them? 2025-09-16 · 54m
Charlie Kirk's Killing and America's Age of "Salad-Bar Extremism" 2025-09-12 · 52m
America in the Age of Diagnosis 2025-09-09 · 57m
Trumponomics Explained, Part 2: The Enshittification of American Power 2025-09-05 · 52m
What Is Trumponomics? Part 1: How Donald Trump Is Breaking American Capitalism 2025-09-03 · 50m
The Healthiest "Super-Agers" Have One Thing in Common, According to a 25-Year Study 2025-08-27 · 42m
Plain History: How the Transcontinental Railroads Built the Modern World 2025-08-20 · 56m
The Modern World Is Changing America’s Personality For the Worse 2025-08-13 · 47m
Will AI Usher In the End of Deep Thinking? 2025-08-06 · 58m
The New Geography of Housing in America 2025-07-30 · 42m
The Demise of Late-Night TV Is an Omen for American Culture 2025-07-23 · 47m
If Trump’s Economic Ideas Are So Bad, Why Isn’t the U.S. Economy Doing Much Worse? 2025-07-17 · 52m
Fertility Needs a Scientific Revolution 2025-07-16 · 47m
The Mysterious Rise of Major Injuries in Professional Sports 2025-07-09 · 54m
How Abundance Won in California 2025-07-03 · 59m
What's Next for the Middle East: War, Peace, or Revolution? 2025-06-25 · 47m
NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani on Abundance, Socialism, and How to Change a Mind 2025-06-23 · 41m
A Grand, Unified Theory of Why Americans Are So Unhealthy 2025-06-18 · 38m
Why Are Americans So Unhealthy? Part I: Is Ultra-Processed Food Killing Us? 2025-06-11 · 52m
What Experts Really Think About Smartphones and Mental Health 2025-06-04 · 67m
Plain History: How Adolf Hitler Destroyed German Democracy in Six Months 2025-05-30 · 62m
Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Is Great for the "Stealthy Wealthy" 2025-05-28 · 66m
The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life 2025-05-23 · 49m
The Rules of Attraction and the Psychology of Romance 2025-05-20 · 64m
Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse 2025-05-16 · 69m
Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs? 2025-05-13 · 67m
Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever? 2025-05-09 · 60m
The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red 2025-05-06 · 44m
Megapod: The Crisis in American Science 2025-05-02 · 124m
Is This the Chinese Century? 2025-04-29 · 69m
What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD 2025-04-25 · 68m
An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life 2025-04-22 · 64m
A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry 2025-04-17 · 33m
Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China 2025-04-16 · 43m
Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression 2025-04-11 · 50m
Trump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen 2025-04-08 · 58m
Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order 2025-03-31 · 54m
Plain History: The Gilded Age 2025-03-24 · 59m
ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein 2025-03-17 · 80m
How Gen Z Sees the World 2025-03-12 · 58m
Can a Vaccine Cure the World’s Deadliest Cancer? 2025-03-07 · 48m
How AI Could Change the Future of Music 2025-03-04 · 58m
The End of Reading 2025-02-28 · 60m
'How Progressives Froze the American Dream' (Live) 2025-02-25 · 55m
Plain History: The Astonishingly Successful Presidency of James K. Polk 2025-02-21 · 63m
The Trump-Musk Doctrine: F-ck Around and Find Out 2025-02-18 · 62m
Is There a Scientific Case for Believing in God? 2025-02-14 · 67m
Fraud, Scandal, and Failure in the Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease 2025-02-11 · 55m
The Energy Story of the Moment: The Unstoppable Rise of Solar Vs. the Unmovable Demand for Global Fossil Fuels 2025-02-07 · 70m
The 5 Types of Wealth 2025-02-04 · 61m
Are GLP-1 Drugs "the Greatest Medical Breakthrough of the 21st Century"? 2025-01-31 · 62m
Tech Talk: AI Supremacy, TikTok’s Fate, and Crypto Decadence 2025-01-24 · 62m
Plain History Volume 1: Who Killed President James Garfield? 2025-01-21 · 58m
What's the Truth About Alcohol, Cancer, and Your Health? 2025-01-17 · 39m
The L.A. Fires: How They Happened, Climate Change’s Role, and What the City Must Do Now 2025-01-14 · 65m
‘The Anti-Social Century’: America’s Epidemic of Solitude—and How to Fix It 2025-01-10 · 71m
The Big 2025 Economy Forecast: AI and Big Tech, Nuclear’s Renaissance, Trump vs. China, and What’s Eating Europe? 2025-01-07 · 71m
The Year's Biggest Breakthroughs in Science and Tech (Feat.: OK, But Seriously, What Is Quantum Computing?) 2024-12-31 · 76m
A Mysterious Health Wave Is Breaking Out Across the U.S. 2024-12-27 · 68m
The Productivity Paradox: Why Less Is More With Oliver Burkeman 2024-12-20 · 62m
Why American Health Care Is a "Broken System" 2024-12-13 · 82m
Is Crypto Entering a New Golden Age—or Just a New Era of Failed Promises? 2024-12-06 · 51m
Megapod: Why Is There So Much BS in Psychology? 2024-11-27 · 108m
Vaccine Conspiracies, Fluoride Myths, and America’s Broken Public-Health Discourse 2024-11-22 · 39m
The Self-Driving Revolution Is Real—and It Could Be Spectacular 2024-11-15 · 69m
How Trump Won: Young Men’s Red Wave, the Blue-City Flop, and the Incumbency Graveyard 2024-11-08 · 52m
How to Watch Election Night Without Falling for Conspiracy Theories or False Hope 2024-11-04 · 45m
This Small Pennsylvania Town Explains the 2024 Election 2024-11-01 · 55m
Why Is Every Recent Presidential Election So Close? 2024-10-25 · 47m
Is Radical Human Life Extension Possible? 2024-10-18 · 54m
America's Young Men Are Falling Behind—and Shifting Right 2024-10-11 · 48m
Is the Middle East on the Verge of All-Out War? 2024-10-04 · 63m
The Surprising Science of Cynicism (Plus: The Policy Paradox of the 2024 Election) 2024-09-27 · 66m
A Sports Mystery: What Happened to the NFL Quarterback? 2024-09-20 · 45m
How AI Could Help Us Discover Miracle Drugs 2024-09-13 · 53m
The Psychology of Conspiracy Theories 2024-09-06 · 78m
"Exercise May Be the Single Most Potent Medical Intervention Ever Known" 2024-08-30 · 58m
Democrats Are Euphoric. But This Election Is Much Closer Than They Think. 2024-08-23 · 12m
The Four Biggest Myths About Political Persuasion 2024-08-16 · 44m
How to Be Happy and the Science of Cognitive Time Travel 2024-08-09 · 65m
Market Meltdown FAQ: Recession Fears, Global Stock Wipeout, and the Case for Calm 2024-08-05 · 27m
Why Are Robocalls So Hard to Stop? (Plus: Kamala and the Gender Wars.) 2024-08-02 · 53m
Why Are Conservatives Happier Than Progressives? 2024-07-26 · 55m
Harsh Truths About 2024 and the Future of the U.S. Economy 2024-07-19 · 52m
"The Weirdest Housing Market in Recent History" 2024-07-12 · 55m
"People Feel Lied To": The White House, the Media, and the Joe Biden Blame Game 2024-07-05 · 58m
Whatever Happened to Serial Killers? 2024-06-28 · 45m
The Radical Cultural Shift Behind America's Declining Birth Rate 2024-06-21 · 54m
Breathing Is Easy. But We’re Doing It Wrong. 2024-06-14 · 55m
The News Media’s Dangerous Addiction to ‘Fake Facts’ 2024-06-07 · 48m
Microplastics Are Everywhere. How Dangerous Are They? 2024-05-31 · 46m
Why the New NBA Deal Is So Weird. Plus, How Sports Rights Actually Work. 2024-05-28 · 49m
What America’s Bold New Economic Experiment Is Missing 2024-05-24 · 59m
The Five Superstars Who Invented the Modern NBA 2024-05-21 · 49m
Are Smartphones Really Driving the Rise in Teenage Depression? 2024-05-14 · 38m
Are Flying Cars Finally Here? 2024-05-07 · 60m
How the Logic of Cults Is Taking Over Modern Life 2024-05-03 · 57m
How Will the Gaza War Finally End? 2024-04-30 · 42m
A Political Scientist on How Protests Can Change Minds or Backfire 2024-04-26 · 55m
What Kind of a Superpower Is India Becoming? 2024-04-23 · 60m
Health Fads and Fictions: VO2 Max, Supplement Mania, Sunlight, and Immortality 2024-04-19 · 60m
U.S. Economy FAQ: Skyrocketing Insurance Prices, Stuck Inflation, Higher Rates, and Wrong Experts 2024-04-16 · 47m
If the 2024 Election Is So Important, Why Does It Feel So Boring? 2024-04-12 · 51m
A Psychologist Explains Four Reasons the Internet Feels So Broken 2024-04-09 · 54m
Why School Absences Have "Exploded" Across America 2024-04-05 · 43m
What Evolutionary Biology Can Teach Us About Diet, Exercise, and Staying Alive 2024-04-02 · 52m
America's Biggest Car Companies Are in Trouble 2024-03-26 · 50m
Should the U.S. Ban TikTok? 2024-03-19 · 34m
How Hollywood’s Hit Formula Flopped—and What Could Come Next 2024-03-12 · 51m
What Many Economists (and I) Got Wrong About This Economy 2024-03-05 · 30m
Why the "Need for Chaos" Is Eating American Politics 2024-03-01 · 36m
Why Americans Stopped Hanging Out—and Why It Matters 2024-02-27 · 70m
"We’re Seeing a Fundamental Reorganization of Work in America" 2024-02-23 · 39m
How to Have the Hardest Conversations—in Marriage, Politics, and Life 2024-02-20 · 41m
Would You Buy a Drug to Extend Your Dog’s Life? 2024-02-16 · 54m
The Dark Side of the Internet's Obsession With Anxiety 2024-02-13 · 47m
Can Solar Power and Battery Tech Save the World From Climate Change? 2024-02-09 · 59m
The Gender War Within Gen Z 2024-02-06 · 56m
What’s the Best Diet for Planet Earth? 2024-01-30 · 59m
Why Did Stanley Water Bottles Suddenly Become a Cultural Phenomenon? 2024-01-26 · 38m
Why the U.S. Media Industry Is in Meltdown 2024-01-23 · 42m
World on Fire, Part 3: How Did America's Border Crisis Get So Bad? 2024-01-19 · 50m
World on Fire, Part 2: Global Conflict Has Surged to an 80-Year High. Why? 2024-01-16 · 53m
World on Fire, Part 1: The Houthis, Israel's Impossible War, and Worsening Middle East Chaos 2024-01-12 · 58m
The Dark Side of the Obsession With Focus 2024-01-09 · 48m
Four Megatrends for 2024 in Tech, Economics, Media, and Weird Science 2024-01-03 · 32m
The Biggest Breakthroughs in Science Happening Right Now 2023-12-27 · 63m
The Truth About Ketamine: Depression Cure, Health Fad, or Placebo? 2023-12-22 · 44m
The Year in Media and Entertainment: What’s Broken (News), What’s Surging (Netflix), and What’s Next 2023-12-19 · 61m
How Weight-Loss Drugs Could Impact U.S. Healthcare and Food. Plus, the Biggest Problems With GLP1s. 2023-12-15 · 92m
The Weight-Loss Drug Revolution, Part 1: Why These Drugs Work So Well 2023-12-12 · 51m
Why It’s So Hard to Buy a House Right Now—and Why It Might Get Better Soon 2023-12-08 · 46m
How Henry Kissinger’s Catastrophes and Triumphs Changed the World 2023-12-05 · 55m
Elon Musk’s Meltdown, the Death of Twitter, and the Chaotic Future of Social Media 2023-12-01 · 56m
How China's Economic Miracle Went Off the Rails 2023-11-28 · 57m
Inside the OpenAI Meltdown 2023-11-21 · 61m
The Media is Missing Something Big in Biden’s Bad Polling Numbers 2023-11-17 · 51m
How ChatGPT Can Change the Future of Jobs—Starting With Your Own 2023-11-14 · 61m
What Most People Get Wrong About Wealth, Fame, and Happiness 2023-11-10 · 64m
The Fragile Hope for Peace in Israel-Palestine 2023-11-07 · 51m
Could a Housing Recession Take Down the U.S. Economy? 2023-11-03 · 37m
Two Israel-Palestine Historians Explain: How Did We Get Here? And What Happens Next? 2023-10-31 · 68m
The Science of Achievement, With Adam Grant 2023-10-27 · 44m
Israel Has No Good Options 2023-10-24 · 42m
The Tragedy of Picking Sides in the Israel-Palestine Conflict 2023-10-17 · 62m
Inside the Trial of Sam Bankman-Fried 2023-10-13 · 43m
Israel at War: Why Did Hamas Attack? 2023-10-10 · 53m
Disney’s Downfall: The Rise and Fall of an Entertainment Giant 2023-10-03 · 65m
Why Americans are Losing Faith in College 2023-09-26 · 58m
What’s So Great About Marriage? 2023-09-19 · 52m
Why Is It So Expensive to Build Stuff in America? 2023-09-12 · 53m
Fatherhood and What Americans Get Wrong About Major Life Changes 2023-09-06 · 47m
Experts Predicted a Recession This Year. How Were They So Wrong? 2023-08-08 · 37m
Why Elite College Admissions Are Biased Toward the Superrich 2023-08-01 · 50m
Oppenheimer: The Genius, the Film, and the Project That Changed the World 2023-07-25 · 57m
How Hollywood Drove Its Business Model Off a Cliff 2023-07-19 · 62m
Americans Think the Economy Is Terrible. The Data Tell Another Story. 2023-07-11 · 57m
How the Digital Workplace Broke Our Brains 2023-07-05 · 63m
What Just Happened in Russia This Weekend? 2023-06-27 · 57m
The Science of Procrastination—and How to Really Get Stuff Done 2023-06-20 · 57m
Why Fertility Rates Are Plunging—in the U.S., South Korea, and Everywhere Else 2023-06-13 · 65m
Why So Many Young Men Are Lonely, Sexless, and Extremely Online 2023-06-06 · 53m
How Hollywood's Writers Strike Could Change the Future of TV and Movies 2023-05-30 · 50m
Why Youth Sports in America Are in Decline 2023-05-23 · 45m
The Future of War Is Here 2023-05-16 · 88m
A Diet Conspiracy: Is Ice Cream Secretly Good for You? 2023-05-09 · 43m
An Optimistic Guide to America’s Clean-Energy Future 2023-05-02 · 85m
The Most Important Thing Most Americans Misunderstand About Insomnia 2023-04-25 · 65m
How American Cities Can Avoid the ‘Urban Doom Loop’ 2023-04-18 · 70m
Americans Die Younger Than People in Any Other Rich Country. Why? 2023-04-11 · 55m
How Strong Is the Case Against Donald Trump? 2023-04-06 · 59m
Myth-Busting Wellness Hacks: Cold Plunges, Coffee, Alcohol, and Fitness Trackers 2023-04-04 · 55m
Eight Burning Questions About the Donald Trump Indictment 2023-03-31 · 26m
Why the Cult of Achievement in Schools Is Making People Miserable 2023-03-28 · 51m
A Mind-Expanding Conversation About Human History and Happiness With Tim Urban 2023-03-24 · 56m
The AI Revolution Could Be Bigger and Weirder Than We Can Imagine 2023-03-21 · 61m
MAILBAG: Why Does the Internet Make Us Depressed? Where Does Good Writing Come From? Is College Worth It Anymore? 2023-03-17 · 39m
The SVB Debacle: The Biggest Myths, the Out-of-Control Blame Game, and the Worst Takes 2023-03-15 · 42m
Silicon Valley Bank Collapse FAQ: Whose Fault Is It? How Can We Stop a Bank Panic? What Comes Next? 2023-03-13 · 39m
"Industrial Policy" Is the Hottest Idea in Economics. What Could Go Wrong? 2023-03-10 · 51m
How the Media Failed Its COVID Test: The Truth Behind the Lab Leak and Masking Debates 2023-03-07 · 95m
Why Are American Teens So Unhappy? How Do We Solve This Crisis? 2023-03-03 · 55m
Happiness in America, Part 1: The Secret to a 'Good Life,' According to an 80-Year Study 2023-02-28 · 59m
The Science of How Music Hits Have Changed in the Last 60 Years 2023-02-24 · 52m
Bing Chatbot Gone Wild and Why AI Could Be the Story of the Decade 2023-02-21 · 51m
UFOs and Aliens and Drones and Balloons: Understanding the U.S. Sky Wars 2023-02-17 · 50m
Why Everybody Is Wrong About a Recession and Housing’s Great Comeback 2023-02-14 · 34m
The Spectacular Rise and Fall of Fake Meat in America 2023-02-10 · 38m
China’s Spy Balloon Is Down. Cold War 2.0 Risks Are Rising. 2023-02-07 · 44m
Econ Megapod: The Debt Ceiling Is Dumb, and the Inflation “Crisis” Might Be Over 2023-02-03 · 57m
The Dark Side of Being Obsessed With Productivity 2023-01-31 · 48m
How AI Could Change Apple and Google, Writing and Music, and Everything Else 2023-01-27 · 62m
Why Big Tech's Jobs Bubble Burst. Plus, SBF's Scandal Deepens. 2023-01-24 · 48m
America Isn’t Ready for the Weight-Loss-Drug Revolution That’s Coming 2023-01-20 · 53m
How Americans Got Everything About Food—Fat, Sugar, and Obesity—‘Entirely Backwards’ 2023-01-17 · 48m
True or False: 10 Controversial Predictions About the Future of Streaming, Tech, and Media 2023-01-13 · 40m
Why There Is So Much Bullsh*t in Science 2023-01-11 · 61m
The 2023 Economy FAQ: Is Recession Inevitable? Will Housing Crash? Can Tech Recover? 2023-01-04 · 45m
PE Greatest Hits: Thompson and Klosterman Debate Why Society Got So Negative 2022-12-27 · 50m
PE Greatest Hits: Derek and Ryen Debate the Most Impressive Sports Statistic of All Time 2022-12-20 · 54m
ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022 2022-12-13 · 59m
Sperm Counts Are Falling All Over the World—Why? 2022-12-09 · 50m
Who's Afraid of a Four-Day Work Week? 2022-12-06 · 51m
Why the Bad Guys—in China, Russia, Iran, and the U.S.—Are Having a Terrible Winter 2022-12-02 · 50m
Why America is Suffering a 'Friendship Recession' 2022-11-29 · 59m
Thanksgiving Mega-Pod: Bob Iger’s Power Grab, SBF’s Scandal, and Elon Musk’s Omnishambles 2022-11-22 · 87m
If China Invades Taiwan, Is It World War III? 2022-11-18 · 49m
A Crypto Catastrophe: The Stunning Fall of FTX—and What Comes Next 2022-11-15 · 47m
Instant Reaction Pod: Midterm Election Winners, Losers, Surprises, and Takeaways 2022-11-09 · 18m
Elon Musk's Reign of Chaos and Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse Madness 2022-11-07 · 49m
America in the Age of Conspiracy: Q-Anon, JFK, Aliens, and More 2022-11-04 · 62m
How the U.S. Housing Market Became Such a Dumpster Fire 2022-11-01 · 44m
How to Invest and Be Happy When It Feels Like the World Is Falling Apart 2022-10-28 · 55m
Ben Smith on the Future of News, How to Start a Media Company, and Why TikTok Is a Time Bomb 2022-10-26 · 39m
Midterm Election FAQ: Can We Trust the Polls? Are Democrats Doomed? 2022-10-25 · 45m
The Case for Indicting Donald Trump 2022-10-18 · 45m
Is Hybrid Work Doomed? 2022-10-14 · 46m
Why the Future of AI Should Terrify and Thrill You 2022-10-11 · 61m
Bill Simmons on Aaron Judge, How Baseball Ruined Itself, and the Joy of Debating Sports Records 2022-10-06 · 68m
Could the Fed Break the World Economy? 2022-10-04 · 42m
Scott Galloway on Why the Internet Is a Mess, Why the News Is So Angry, and Why American Men Are ‘Adrift’ 2022-09-29 · 57m
Is the Federal Reserve Making a Huge Mistake? 2022-09-27 · 37m
Why America Has a Crisis of Masculinity 2022-09-23 · 50m
Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk 2022-09-20 · 56m
The Housing Recession Is Coming 2022-09-15 · 39m
Bill Gates on Progress, Food Technology, and the Battle Between Climate Change and Innovation 2022-09-13 · 29m
How Ukraine’s New Offensive Could Win the War Against Russia 2022-09-12 · 51m
The UK Is in Trouble: Economic Crises, Energy Shocks, and the Queen’s Death 2022-09-08 · 50m
America’s National Teacher Shortage: Looming Crisis or Media Myth? 2022-09-06 · 39m
Nate Silver on Why This Midterm Election Could Be the Weirdest in Decades 2022-09-02 · 56m
The Messy Debate Over Student Loan Forgiveness 2022-08-30 · 42m
Burning Questions on Media: Streaming’s Summer of Hell, Movie Theater Woes, and CNN’s Risky Pivot 2022-08-26 · 50m
What’s the Secret of Success in America? This Economist Has Answers. 2022-08-23 · 51m
Why Does It Seem Like Everybody Hates Everything? 2022-08-19 · 52m
Donald Trump vs. the FBI: Everything We Know About the Investigation So Far 2022-08-16 · 42m
A New Way to Think About Racism in America 2022-08-12 · 45m
Carbon Removal Might Be the World’s Most Important Technology. How Does It Work? 2022-08-09 · 46m
Curiosity Corner: Monkeypox Myths, Millennial Facts, and Overpopulation Fears 2022-08-05 · 31m
Is Old Music Killing New Music? 2022-08-03 · 54m
How the Democrats' New Climate Bill Could Change the World 2022-08-01 · 25m
Why the Question "Are We in a Recession?" Is Impossible to Answer 2022-07-29 · 40m
Crypto Crash, Part II: A Debate About the Future of Web3 2022-07-26 · 54m
Crypto Crash Part I: The Case Against Crypto 2022-07-25 · 50m
Why It Seems Like So Many Countries Are Falling Apart 2022-07-22 · 53m
The World Is on Fire. Here’s a Realistic Plan to Save Humanity. 2022-07-19 · 63m
Three Ways the Elon Musk–Twitter Showdown Could End 2022-07-14 · 41m
Burning Questions About the Future of Media: Netflix vs. Disney, TikTok vs. Everyone, and the Metaverse 2022-07-12 · 73m
Musk Meltdown: Elon’s Breakup With Twitter Is Going to Be Very Messy 2022-07-10 · 17m
The Biggest Economic Question of the Moment: Is This Peak Inflation? 2022-07-08 · 33m
Why Are the Police So Bad at Solving Murders? 2022-07-06 · 47m
Abortion Pills Are a Game Changer, Plus Our Next Big Culture War 2022-07-01 · 37m
Five Reasons Everybody Is Wrong About a U.S. Recession—Including Me 2022-06-28 · 37m
The End of Roe v. Wade Changes Everything 2022-06-24 · 42m
Why Air Travel Is a Hot Mess Right Now 2022-06-24 · 43m
Why Gas Prices Are Skyrocketing—and an Ingenious Plan to Bring Them Down 2022-06-21 · 46m
The Big Winners and Losers From the Remote Work Revolution 2022-06-17 · 49m
The End of the Everything Boom (Plus: The Federal Reserve's Risky Move) 2022-06-15 · 41m
The Big Inflation FAQ: Why It’s So High, How Everyone Got It Wrong, and What's Next 2022-06-13 · 50m
California’s Elections Sent an Important Message. What Is It? 2022-06-10 · 41m
Curiosity Corner: America’s Gun Dilemma, the Future of Corporate Politics, Relationship Advice, and More! 2022-06-07 · 35m
America’s Gun Problem Is Impossible 2022-05-26 · 47m
What's Going on With the U.S. Housing Market? 2022-05-24 · 54m
Why Does the Internet Hate Amber Heard? 2022-05-20 · 40m
The Mystery of America's Missing Baby Formula 2022-05-18 · 45m
Why the U.S. Could Be Headed For the "Weirdest Recession Ever" 2022-05-17 · 53m
Market Meltdown: Why Tech and Crypto Are Crashing - and What Happens Next 2022-05-11 · 52m
The Future of AI Is Thrilling, Terrifying, Confusing, and Fascinating 2022-05-10 · 68m
The 300-Year History of Abortion in America—in 30 Minutes 2022-05-06 · 41m
How Would the End of Roe v. Wade Change America? 2022-05-04 · 45m
Economic Mystery Hour: How Low Will Stocks Go? Is a Recession Inevitable? 2022-05-03 · 40m
Why Is It So Hard to Predict the Next Great Quarterback? 2022-04-29 · 36m
The End of the Golden Age of Streaming 2022-04-26 · 53m
Instant Reaction Pod! Elon Musk Buys Twitter. So, What Happens Next? 2022-04-26 · 41m
Why Are American Teenagers So Sad and Anxious? 2022-04-22 · 62m
How Joe Biden Lost Millennials 2022-04-19 · 50m
The News About Shanghai’s COVID Lockdown Is Shocking. The Reality Might Be Worse. 2022-04-15 · 46m
Instant Reaction Pod! Elon Musk Offers to Buy 100 Percent of Twitter. 2022-04-14 · 30m
When Will the Ukraine War End? (Plus: 10 Good Minutes on What the Hell Elon Musk Is Doing With Twitter) 2022-04-12 · 58m
It's Not Just You: America's Epidemic of Bad Behavior 2022-04-08 · 42m
Why U.S. Population Growth Crashed to a Record Low 2022-04-05 · 47m
Should You Be Afraid of TikTok? 2022-04-01 · 33m
What Is the “Don’t Say Gay” Law Really About? (Plus: The Big Disney vs. DeSantis Showdown in Florida.) 2022-03-29 · 46m
How Ukraine Wins 2022-03-25 · 41m
Could Putin’s War Crash the U.S. Economy? 2022-03-22 · 43m
Five Reasons Putin’s War Was Doomed From the Start 2022-03-14 · 22m
Why a No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Could Be—Literally—the Worst Idea Ever 2022-03-10 · 35m
“Every Person Is Ready to Die for Our Country”: Five Ukrainians on Life Inside Putin’s War Zone 2022-03-08 · 21m
SPECIAL DOUBLE EPISODE: What Putin Will Do Next and the West’s Unprecedented "Financial War" on Russia 2022-03-02 · 59m
Russia’s Economic Meltdown, Putin’s Big Mistake, and the West’s Financial War Against Vlad and the Oligarchs 2022-03-01 · 32m
How Putin's War Will End 2022-02-25 · 44m
What Vladimir Putin Wants—and How Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Reshape the World 2022-02-25 · 32m
Four Brilliant Frames for Finding the Next Big Thing, With Venture Capitalist Josh Wolfe. Plus, What's Eating Tech Stocks in 2022? 2022-02-22 · 48m
The Great Debate: What's the Single Most Amazing Sports Statistic in U.S. History? 2022-02-18 · 55m
What American Media Is Getting Wrong About Canada’s Big Protests 2022-02-15 · 26m
The Meaning of Life and the Power of Regret 2022-02-11 · 47m
Media Gossip Hour: Spotify's Joe Rogan Problem, Facebook's TikTok Crisis, and Crypto's Anonymity Conundrum 2022-02-08 · 52m
This Guy Predicted the 2021 Economy. I Asked Him What's Next. 2022-02-04 · 48m
One Big Question For: Apple, Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, Tesla, and Meta 2022-02-01 · 43m
Should We Cancel Student Debt? 2022-01-28 · 37m
Crypto Crashing, Pandemic Stocks Plunging: The Story Behind January’s Crazy Stock Market 2022-01-25 · 45m
2022 Is Off to a Terrible Start for Democrats 2022-01-21 · 42m
The Biggest Losers of the Streaming Wars: ESPN, Movie Theaters, Peacock, and More 2022-01-18 · 49m
Everybody Was Wrong About Inflation 2022-01-14 · 44m
Omicron: Feelings vs. Facts 2022-01-11 · 36m
The Biggest Inventions of the 2020s: Cancer Vaccines, Flying Cars, Space Travel, and More 2022-01-07 · 55m
The Four Ways That America Is Polarizing 2021-12-28 · 39m
The Four Biggest Myths of the U.S. Economy. Plus, Omicron in 100 Seconds. 2021-12-21 · 47m
Elon Musk Is the Person of the Year. Who Is the Person of the Century? 2021-12-17 · 65m
The Elizabeth Holmes Trial With Rebecca Jarvis of 'The Dropout' Podcast 2021-12-14 · 48m
Media Report Card! Biden Blues, Omicron Fears, Chris Cuomo, and a Celebrity Profile for the Ages 2021-12-10 · 44m
Work in America Is Broken—Can Remote Work Save Us? 2021-12-07 · 39m
BONUS POD: The Future of Democracy, the Media, and the Economy With Andrew Yang 2021-12-04 · 63m
The Bad Guys Are Winning 2021-12-03 · 52m
The Omicron Variant: So, How Bad Is It? 2021-11-30 · 34m
Buy or Sell Pandemic Trends: Peloton, Movie Theaters, Masks, and More! 2021-11-23 · 48m
We Have to Talk About Inflation 2021-11-19 · 47m
The Future Is Going to Be Weird As Hell 2021-11-16 · 47m
Introducing Plain English with Derek Thompson 2021-11-11 · 1m
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