Derek Thompson

There are 12 statistics, factoids, and studies that dominate every discussion about whether artificial intelligence is a bubble. Here's a deep-dive into all 12 arguments

Trump, the White House, and their defenders claim that trade is bad and tariffs are good. So how on earth do they defend America's AI policy, which is the opposite in every way?

It seems like everyone has suddenly agreed that young Americans have never had it worse. Let's investigate.

A brief theory of young men, "the loneliness crisis," and life in the 21st century

The affordability theory of everything

Bubbles. Greed. Technology that forever changes the way we work and live. The history of the 19th century transcontinentals can tell us a lot about the state of AI.

The Sunday Morning Post: The scientific connection between billion-year-old volcanos, oxygen, and your dreams

Since November 2022, the stock market is up more than 70 percent and job openings are down more than 30 percent. Nothing like this has happened in decades.

Today's Sunday Morning Post: Attention, finitude, and a game of life

*The best arguments I've heard on the $10 trillion question of the moment

A theory of culture and attention

Welcome back to The Sunday Morning Post.

The artificial intelligence boom is the most important economic story in the world. But the numbers just don't add up.

Mental health, ideology, and the psycho-politics of the future

A Sunday Morning Post about the strange wonder of placebo effects in medicine and society, with brief appearances by Indiana Jones and William James

The rise of AI's "thinking" machines is not the problem. The decline of thinking people is.

Charts and history lessons—across culture, politics, AI, economics, health, science, and the long story of progress

Political violence is like a lightning bolt: sudden, surprising, seemingly random, yet always emerging from a local weather system. Do not forget that we all make the weather.

Or: Why does it seem like every psychological condition is an "epidemic" these days?

Step one: Create pain. Step two: Demand tribute. Step three: Repeat.