Tag: Big Take

• Big Take: Weekend Listen: Julia Ioffe Wants You to Know Russia Is Bigger Than Putin

  November 9, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/6jgVdJO How do you tell the history of a whole country through its women? And what can it tell us about the world today? These are the questions Russian-American… more ›

• Big Take: China Bets Big on a $167 Billion Tibetan Dam

  July 29, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/Da4g65k China is building the largest power plant the world has ever seen, in a very remote corner of Tibet. But the $167 billion hydropower dam has environmentalists and… more ›

• Big Take: China’s Got Big Plans for AI — In the Desert

  July 9, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/sSQcgRZ In a remote part of China's northwestern Xinjiang region, dozens of data centers rise from the desert. A Bloomberg analysis of investor and tax documents and company filings… more ›

• Big Take: Zohran Mamdani, the Socialist Who Could Be NYC’s New Mayor

  June 29, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/atTEYqs This week, Zohran Mamdani won the first round of the Democratic primary for mayor of New York City, making him the presumptive party nominee and the early favorite… more ›

• Big Take: How Wall Street Thinks About Crypto’s Future

  March 18, 2025

  Listen: https://ift.tt/kNyd31z Crypto optimism soared after President Trump’s re-election and Bitcoin hit an all-time high the day of his inauguration. But it's been on something of a roller coaster since… more ›