Xi’s Big Challenge Is Getting People to Spend, Spend, Spend
A crippling property crisis, mounting debt, weak consumer spending… and now a trade war. Despite the headwinds, China has set an ambitious economic growth goal of about 5% this year. On today’s Big Ta...
7 Mar 202513min
A Warming Planet vs. Trump
Since taking office in January, President Trump has set in motion a series of sweeping rollbacks on US climate policy. This comes at a time when governments around the world have lagged behind their s...
6 Mar 202516min
Why Harvard Law Is Losing Black Students
The data is in: The number of Black first-year students at Harvard Law fell dramatically after the Supreme Court’s decision to ban the consideration of race in admissions. On today’s Big Take podcast,...
4 Mar 202513min
How Facebook, Tinder and Airbnb Are Being Used for Sex Trafficking in Colombia
In January 2024, the US Embassy issued a warning to all American travelers: Be careful using dating apps in Colombia. Eight men had been killed in two months — several of them after traveling to Medel...
3 Mar 202517min
What’s Behind All of the US Air Travel Accidents?
Over the last few months, a spate of high-profile air travel incidents in North America have captured public attention. And it’s raised concerns about whether air travel is as safe as it used to be. O...
28 Feb 202515min
When a Small Town Gets a Big Data Center
The Hopeful Primitive Baptist Church in Fayetteville, Georgia, has been standing for two hundred years. Now, with a huge, private equity-backed data center coming to town, it will soon be surrounded b...
27 Feb 202516min
Xi Has Embraced China’s Tech Titans Once Again. Will It Last?
Four years after launching a regulatory crackdown that plunged the tech sector into turmoil, China’s President Xi Jinping sat down publicly with Alibaba Group’s co-founder Jack Ma, whose firm bore the...
26 Feb 202515min
Inside Walmart’s Next Chapter With CEO Doug McMillon
Doug McMillon has been running Walmart since 2014. He’s credited with pushing the company into the digital age and successfully steering it through the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, he’s turning his attenti...
24 Feb 202516min
