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MEGAPOD: The Most Overrated American Who Ever Lived

July 03, 2026 5:00am 1:09

To celebrate America's 250th birthday, Derek is joined for a history draft by three of the country's leading historians: Beverly Gage, H.W. (Bill) Brands, and Richard White. The goal isn't to revisit the familiar stories...

A Surprising Theory About the Future of War

June 30, 2026 5:00am 56 min

From the bombing campaigns of World War II to the precision strikes of the modern era, for 80 years air power has defined modern warfare. But today, a new technology is changing the battlefield: drones. From Ukraine to t...

SpaceX, AI Bubble Fears, and The Age of the Trillion-Dollar, Zero-Profit Company

June 26, 2026 5:00am 53 min

For decades, investors valued companies based on a familiar formula: Grow revenue, earn profits, and reward shareholders. But a new era may be beginning - one where trillion-dollar companies can lose billions of dollars ...

The Iran War Is Ending. Everybody Lost.

June 23, 2026 5:00am 56 min

Four months ago, the U.S. and Israel launched a surprise attack on Iran. Supporters predicted a decisive victory that would curb Iran’s nuclear ambitions and reshape the balance of power in the Middle East. Instead, the ...

The Donald Trump Corruption Scandal Draft

June 19, 2026 5:00am 1:08

What is Donald Trump good at? In his second administration, he promised lower prices, stronger manufacturing, and an end to foreign conflicts. Instead, inflation has risen, blue-collar job growth has slowed, and the U.S....

The Most Exciting Month of Medical Breakthroughs in Years

June 16, 2026 5:00am 59 min

For years, scientists worried that medical progress was slowing down. Drug development became more expensive than ever with more complex clinical trials, and even then, many new treatments offered only modest gains. But ...

Old-igarchy: How the Elderly Conquered American Power

June 12, 2026 5:00am 1:01

Prior to the 1930s, old age in America often meant poverty. But thanks to Social Security, Medicare, medical advances, and rising asset prices, over the past 90 years, older Americans have become one of the wealthiest an...

How Modern Fatherhood Is Changing Men’s Brains

June 09, 2026 5:00am 1:04

Humans are unusual dads. Across the animal kingdom, dads are often absent from child-rearing altogether. But among humans, fatherhood takes many forms, and in the last half century, it has changed dramatically. College-e...

What 400,000 Essays Reveal About AI and Creativity

June 05, 2026 5:00am 56 min

For generations, we've defined creativity by its products: the novel, the painting, the song, the breakthrough idea. We look at the work, and from the work we see the creator as “creative.” But AI is getting remarkably g...

The Surprising Truth About America's Friendship Crisis

June 02, 2026 5:00am 58 min

Modern loneliness is often treated as a simple problem: People are simply spending more time alone. But what if that's not the whole story? Over the last several years, Derek has written about workism, the rise of a cult...

Why the NBA Feels Broken—and Why the League Can’t Fix It

May 29, 2026 5:01am 57 min

The NBA’s vibes have been unusually awful recently. There has been widespread hand-wringing about the homogenization of modern offenses and the league’s notoriously weak regular-season TV ratings. A tanking crisis saw ab...

The Men Who Think Toxic Feminism Destroyed America

May 22, 2026 5:00am 59 min

Over the past century, attitudes about gender roles have become one of the clearest dividing lines in the country. Many Republicans, both men and women, say men are getting a raw deal in modern America. Many Democrats se...

Does Anybody Know How to Solve an American Debt Crisis?

May 19, 2026 5:00am 1:01

On his 40th birthday, Derek Thompson takes a step back and looks at how his thinking on the national debt has changed. Back when he first covered fiscal policy, concern about government borrowing was mostly a conservativ...

The Global Fertility Crisis Is Worse Than You Think

May 15, 2026 5:00am 1:01

Fertility rates are collapsing around the world. In rich countries and poor ones, in secular societies and religious ones, people are having fewer children than ever before. Some explanations focus on economic factors li...

The Case Against the AI Job Apocalypse

May 12, 2026 5:00am 54 min

For the past few years, Silicon Valley executives and economists have warned that artificial intelligence could wipe out millions of jobs. Some companies have even blamed AI for layoffs. But what if the AI job apocalypse...

Why American Happiness Just Fell Off a Cliff

May 08, 2026 5:00am 1:00

America is richer than ever. Unemployment is low. Wages are high. According to traditional metrics, the economy looks strong. So why are Americans feeling so bad? Today, Derek talks with bestselling author Morgan Housel ...

One of the Deadliest Cancers in America May Have Met Its Match

May 05, 2026 5:00am 45 min

Hard to detect and almost impossible to treat, pancreatic cancer has long been one of medicine’s most ruthless killers. For decades, it’s been the cancer that science couldn’t crack. But that might be starting to change....

Why Too Much Freedom Is the Enemy of Success

May 01, 2026 5:00am 49 min

Freedom is one of the few ideas everyone agrees on. Surely more choice and autonomy is a good thing, right? But what if our endless pursuit of freedom is actually making us more anxious, less creative, and holding us bac...

Why the Iran War Is Tearing MAGA Apart

April 28, 2026 5:00am 58 min

For nearly a decade, critics have predicted that this would be the moment Trumpism finally fractures - January 6, the overturning of Roe v. Wade, endless internal feuds, even Trump’s online beef with Pope Leo. And yet th...

The Triple Crisis That’s Breaking Hollywood—and Changing the Future of Movies

April 24, 2026 5:00am 1:10

Hollywood is in the middle of a triple crisis. You can measure it in tickets, jobs, and ideas. Start with tickets. The best year for the movie business this century was 2002, when Americans and Canadians bought 1.6 billi...

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