Derek Thompson

Derek Thompson is a senior editor at The Atlantic, where he oversees business coverage for TheAtlantic.com. More

Thompson has written for Slate, BusinessWeek, and the Daily Beast. He has also appeared as a guest on radio and television networks, including NPR, the BBC, CNBC, and MSNBC.

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Issue July/August 2013

Cable TV Is Not Going Away

Ideas of the Year 2013

Issue June 2013

Death of the Salesmen: Technology's Threat to Retail Jobs

Should we mourn them?

Issue June 2013

Are We Truly Overworked? An Investigation—in 6 Charts

Americans are laboring less than ever. So why do we feel so busy?

Issue May 2013

The Millennial Stimulus Plan

How young people will supercharge the recovery

Issue March 2013

The Incredible Shrinking Ad

As our attention shifts to mobile phones—and their smaller screens—ads are becoming vastly less effective. And companies built on ad revenues, like Google and Facebook, should start to sweat.

Issue March 2013

The Myth of the Student-Loan Crisis

Issue November 2012

Prisoners of Cable

Why we can’t break free from our TV overlords

Issue September 2012

The Cheapest Generation

Why Millennials aren’t buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy

Issue November 2011

Vinod Khosla

2009: The View from Our Bloggers

Obama’s inauguration and Sotomayor’s confirmation, the economic crisis and the unraveling of Iran. From just about every angle, 2009 was one hell of a year. Here's what our bloggers had to say about the year's biggest stories. (Additional reporting by Jenny Merkin)

The 10 American Ideas of the Decade

The Decade in Gadgets

A then-and-now look at the technologies in our lives

The Biggest Story in Photos

Early Monsoon Rains Flood Northern India

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