Derek Thompson
Derek Thompson
About the show
Longtime tech, culture, and political writer Derek Thompson cuts through all the noise surrounding the big questions and headlines that matter to you in his podcast Plain English. Hear Derek and guests engage the news with clear viewpoints and memorable takeaways. New episodes drop weekly, and if you’ve got a topic you want discussed, shoot us an email at plainenglish@spotify.com.
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The Fed
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Harvard economist Jason Furman returns to the show to answer two big, burning questions. First, if Trump’s economic ideas are as bad as most economists say, why isn’t the U.S. economy doing much worse? Second, if Trump fires Jerome Powell, would it be the final blow that finally pushes the economy into a recession?
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Episode Breakdown
Harvard economist Jason Furman returns to the show to answer two big, burning questions. First, if Trump’s economic ideas are as bad as most economists say, why isn’t the U.S. economy doing much worse? Second, if Trump fires Jerome Powell, would it be the final blow that finally pushes the economy into a recession?
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Smartphones
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What’s the truth about smartphones, social media, and mental health? That’s the question that NYU researcher Jay Van Bavel set out to answer with his collaborator Valerio Capraro. They took dozens of claims about smartphones, sent them to hundreds of experts, and asked them whether these claims were probably true, probably false, or unknown. Van Bavel tells us what he found, what surprised him, and why his survey made so many researchers so angry.
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Episode Breakdown
What’s the truth about smartphones, social media, and mental health? That’s the question that NYU researcher Jay Van Bavel set out to answer with his collaborator Valerio Capraro. They took dozens of claims about smartphones, sent them to hundreds of experts, and asked them whether these claims were probably true, probably false, or unknown. Van Bavel tells us what he found, what surprised him, and why his survey made so many researchers so angry.
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Abundance
By Derek Thompson and Ezra Klein • March 18
‘Abundance’ is Plain English host Derek Thompson and New York Times journalist Ezra Klein’s call to renew a politics of plenty, face up to the failures of liberal governance, and abandon the chosen scarcities that have deformed American life.More info
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