Plain English with Derek Thompson

298 Episodes

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

   Published: 30/05/2025
2. Trump’s Big, Beautiful Bill Is Great for the "Stealthy Wealthy"

   Published: 28/05/2025
3. The Gene-Editing Breakthrough That Saved a Baby’s Life

   Published: 23/05/2025
4. The Rules of Attraction and the Psychology of Romance

   Published: 20/05/2025
5. Plain History: How Norman Borlaug Stopped the Apocalypse

   Published: 16/05/2025
6. Why Do Americans Pay So Much for Drugs?

   Published: 13/05/2025
7. Is Pop Culture Worse Than Ever?

   Published: 09/05/2025
8. The Job Market for Young Grads Is Flashing Red

   Published: 06/05/2025
9. Megapod: The Crisis in American Science

   Published: 02/05/2025
10. Is This the Chinese Century?

    Published: 29/04/2025
11. What Americans Get Wrong About ADHD

    Published: 25/04/2025
12. An Astrophysicist Explains the "Strongest Evidence Yet" of Alien Life

    Published: 22/04/2025
13. A Toy Manufacturer Explains How Trump’s Tariffs Could Crush His Industry

    Published: 17/04/2025
14. Why America Will Lose Its Trade War With China

    Published: 16/04/2025
15. Plain History: The Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Great Depression

    Published: 11/04/2025
16. Trump’s Trade War Is Like Nothing America’s Ever Seen

    Published: 08/04/2025
17. Trump’s Plan to Smash the Global Economic Order

    Published: 31/03/2025
18. Plain History: The Gilded Age

    Published: 24/03/2025
19. ABUNDANCE! With Ezra Klein

    Published: 17/03/2025
20. How Gen Z Sees the World

    Published: 12/03/2025