Plain English with Derek Thompson

245 Episodes

1. Why Are American Teenagers So Sad and Anxious?

   Published: 4/22/2022
2. How Joe Biden Lost Millennials

   Published: 4/19/2022
3. The News About Shanghai’s COVID Lockdown Is Shocking. The Reality Might Be Worse.

   Published: 4/15/2022
4. Instant Reaction Pod! Elon Musk Offers to Buy 100 Percent of Twitter.

   Published: 4/14/2022
5. When Will the Ukraine War End? (Plus: 10 Good Minutes on What the Hell Elon Musk Is Doing With Twitter)

   Published: 4/12/2022
6. It's Not Just You: America's Epidemic of Bad Behavior

   Published: 4/8/2022
7. Why U.S. Population Growth Crashed to a Record Low

   Published: 4/5/2022
8. Should You Be Afraid of TikTok?

   Published: 4/1/2022
9. What Is the “Don’t Say Gay” Law Really About? (Plus: The Big Disney vs. DeSantis Showdown in Florida.)

   Published: 3/29/2022
10. How Ukraine Wins

    Published: 3/25/2022
11. Could Putin’s War Crash the U.S. Economy?

    Published: 3/22/2022
12. Five Reasons Putin’s War Was Doomed From the Start

    Published: 3/14/2022
13. Why a No-Fly Zone Over Ukraine Could Be—Literally—the Worst Idea Ever

    Published: 3/10/2022
14. “Every Person Is Ready to Die for Our Country”: Five Ukrainians on Life Inside Putin’s War Zone

    Published: 3/8/2022
15. SPECIAL DOUBLE EPISODE: What Putin Will Do Next and the West’s Unprecedented "Financial War" on Russia

    Published: 3/2/2022
16. Russia’s Economic Meltdown, Putin’s Big Mistake, and the West’s Financial War Against Vlad and the Oligarchs

    Published: 3/1/2022
17. How Putin's War Will End

    Published: 2/25/2022
18. What Vladimir Putin Wants—and How Russia’s War in Ukraine Could Reshape the World

    Published: 2/25/2022
19. Four Brilliant Frames for Finding the Next Big Thing, With Venture Capitalist Josh Wolfe. Plus, What's Eating Tech Stocks in 2022?

    Published: 2/22/2022
20. The Great Debate: What's the Single Most Amazing Sports Statistic in U.S. History?

    Published: 2/18/2022