Plain English with Derek Thompson

298 Episodes

1. Plain History: How Adolf Hitler Destroyed German Democracy in Six Months

   Published: 5/30/2025
2. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Is Great for the "Stealthy Wealthy"

   Published: 5/28/2025
3. The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life

   Published: 5/23/2025
4. The Rules of Attraction and the Psychology of Romance

   Published: 5/20/2025
5. Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse

   Published: 5/16/2025
6. Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?

   Published: 5/13/2025
7. Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?

   Published: 5/9/2025
8. The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red

   Published: 5/6/2025
9. Megapod: The Crisis in American Science

   Published: 5/2/2025
10. Is This the Chinese Century?

    Published: 4/29/2025
11. What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD

    Published: 4/25/2025
12. An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life

    Published: 4/22/2025
13. A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry

    Published: 4/17/2025
14. Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China

    Published: 4/16/2025
15. Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression

    Published: 4/11/2025
16. Trump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen

    Published: 4/8/2025
17. Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order

    Published: 3/31/2025
18. Plain History: The Gilded Age

    Published: 3/24/2025
19. ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein

    Published: 3/17/2025
20. How Gen Z Sees the World

    Published: 3/12/2025