From California to Maine, Unpacking the Races That Will Shape the Midterms
The field for 2026 US midterm elections is coming into focus, with key primaries this week in Maine and South Carolina, as well as bellwether state elections in California. On today’s Big Take podcast...
8 Jun 19min
Weekend Listen: FIFA’s Jill Ellis on the the World Cup
Jill Ellis has seen soccer from every angle: as an elite player, as the two-time World Cup champion coach of the U.S. Women’s National Team and as an NWSL team president. She is bringing this expertis...
7 Jun 23min
Can AI Save This Failing Rural Economy?
By many metrics, Meta is falling behind in the AI race. So CEO Mark Zuckerberg is building one of the largest data centers in the world — a facility the size of about 3,000 football fields in one of t...
5 Jun 29min
We Went to Interview Bolivia’s President and a Riot Broke Out
President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule in Bolivia with promises of unity, democracy and prosperity — and plans to tap the country’s mineral wealth. But when host David Gura went to Bol...
4 Jun 17min
How H-1B Restrictions Popped Dallas’ Housing Bubble
For more than a decade, the towns north of Dallas, Texas – places like Frisco, Prosper and Celina – have seen an unprecedented housing boom, thanks in part to Indian workers drawn by skilled tech jobs...
3 Jun 18min
Huge AI Bonuses Spark South Korea Tech Wealth Fight
Samsung recently made headlines when it narrowly averted a strike by offering eye-popping bonuses to its chip workers. But the move has seemingly backfired—sparking deep resentment in other corners of...
2 Jun 17min
How America’s Consumer Watchdog Became a Corporate Protector
The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is tasked with enforcing consumer finance laws and holding some of the country’s most powerful banks, lenders and companies to account. But a new Bloomberg ...
1 Jun 19min
Weekend Listen: Indonesia’s $15 Billion Free Lunch Experiment
Indonesia’s free lunch program is a massive operation, feeding tens of millions of people every day across a vast archipelago. On this episode of the Big Take Asia podcast, host Rebecca Choong Wilkins...
31 Mai 17min
