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Derek Thompson
@DKThomp
Substack author. Plain English podcast host. Abundance co-author. Contributing writer at The Atlantic.
Washington, D.C.
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Born May 18
Joined May 2009
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    Derek Thompson
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    Jun 20, 2025
    Some personal news. Today, I’m leaving The Atlantic after almost 17 years and moving my writing to Substack. It would be convenient, for the purposes of crafting an exciting departure announcement, to have a dramatic exit story: a fight, a grievance, a shouting match with an
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    Derek Thompson
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    Maybe folks with a better grasp of economic history can help me out, but ... has anything as important to economic growth ever been as demonstrably unpopular as AI? Data center capex is increasing twice as fast as housing before the financial crisis in the 2000s, per Apollo.
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    Torsten Slok at Apollo has three great charts today. "Data-center capex adds 1.7 percentage points in just two years, from 1.4% of GDP in 2025 to 3.1% in 2027, or roughly 0.85 percentage points a year. Housing's quickest phase, from 5.1% in 2002 to 6.6% in 2005, ran at 0.5
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    Derek Thompson
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    ppl should do what they want with their money but moderate democrats' deficits relate to candidates, messaging, organizing, and enthusiasm ... not money. plus, i hope ppl see the risk in a headline about moderates raising millions of dollars to attack a popular left insurgency
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    NYT: Moderate Democrats Prepare for ‘War’ Against an Ascendant Left “We are preparing for the next war that is coming,” said Jonathan Cowan, president of Third Way, revealing a new $15 million effort through 2028 to discredit democratic socialism. Their fear: El-Sayed paving a
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    Derek Thompson
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    Aug 5
    In my experience, there are a lot of people on the left who believe that leftist politics is objective reality and non-leftism, or anti-leftism, is a media product—specifically, something that can only be created by propaganda that separates people from the objective experience
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    Derek Thompson
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    Aug 5
    New pod: WHY AMERICA IS SWITCHING FROM BOOZE TO WEED Two unprecedented things have happened in the last 10 years. 1. Negative attitudes toward drinking have surged, coinciding with the largest decline in the share of Americans who drink since the 1930s. 2. Cannabis use has
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