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Economic recovery. Elections. Terrorism. Global poverty. Trade. Policy issues are complex and multi-faceted. Want more than the 30-second sound bite? Tune in to Intersections, a podcast from...

In this episode, Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings, and Lemma Senbet, Wil...

In this episode, Brookings Vice President Darrell West and Senior Fellow Camille Busette discuss themes from West's new book, " Divided Poli...

In this episode, Angela Stent and Keir Giles, authors of " Putin's World: Russia Against the West and with the Rest " and " Moscow Rules: Wh...

The Task Force on Extremism in Fragile States recently released its recommendations, calling for a new strategy to prevent violent extremism...

In this episode, David M. Rubenstein Fellows Andre Perry and Jenny Schuetz examine past policies and current attitudes that have devalued ho...

In this episode, former Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard , founder of the Global Institute for Women's Leadership and distinguished f...

In this episode, Todd Stern, senior fellow and former special envoy for climate change in the Obama administration, and David Victor, co-cha...

In between spikes of violence, the people of the Gaza Strip live in a state of perpetual crisis—a man-made humanitarian disaster of severe u...

Brookings Fellows Martha Ross and Elizabeth Mann Levesque discuss the important role that community colleges play in putting young adults on...

In a conversation with Natan Sachs , fellow and director of the Center on Middle East Policy, Distinguished Fellow Salam Fayyad , former pri...

In this episode, Bradley Hardy , associate professor in the Department of Public Administration and Policy at American University and nonres...

In this episode, Dhruva Jaishankar , fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings India, and Rush Doshi , post-doctoral fellow in Foreign Policy at...

In this episode, Isabel Sawhill , Brookings senior fellow and author of " The Forgotten Americans: An Economic Agenda for a Divided Nation ,...

In this episode, Brookings experts David Dollar , senior fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center, and Joseph Parilla , fellow in the M...

In this episode, Nonresident Fellow Witney Schneidman and David M. Rubinstein Fellow Landry Signé discuss how Africa's Continental Free Trad...

In this episode, Robert Kagan , author of the forthcoming " The Jungle Grows Back: America and Our Imperiled World ," and Thomas Wright , au...

In this episode of Intersections, Vanessa Williamson and Elizabeth Mann Levesque review the Supreme Court's ruling on Janus v. AFSCME, which...

In this episode, Brookings Fellow Adie Tomer, CityLab's Tanvi Misra, and Route Fifty's Mitch Herckis revisit the themes of Infrastructure We...

In this episode, Tamara Cofman Wittes , senior fellow with the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, and Steven Heydemann , nonresiden...

In this episode, Lauren Bauer , post-doctoral fellow in Economic Studies and the Hamilton Project at Brookings, and Anne Wicks , director of...

On May 8, President Trump announced that the United States will reimpose sanctions on Iran, withdrawing the country from the Joint Comprehen...

When children as young as two and three years old are already facing significant gaps in their exposure to words, numbers, and spatial under...

Witney Schneidman and Yun Sun examine the shape of U.S. and Chinese trade and investment in Africa, Africa's growing regional economic power...

In this episode, Tanvi Madan, fellow and director of the India Project, guest-hosted a conversation between Distinguished Fellow Shivshankar...

In this episode, Jay Shambaugh and Jared Bernstein discuss the decades-long trend of real wage stagnation and policy solutions for increasin...

For International Women's Day, we're showcasing the work of the Echidna Global Scholars – leaders from NGOs and academia who work to improve...

In this episode, Camille Busette , senior fellow and director of the Race, Prosperity and Inclusion Initiative at Brookings, and Richard Ree...

In this episode, Stanford Professor Raj Chetty explains his new research that examines who becomes an inventor in America and who gets left...

Bruce Jones, Jung Pak, and Ryan Hass discuss Kim Jong-un's strategic goals and the dynamics of the U.S., China, and South Korea in trying to...

For the last Intersections episode of the year, we're releasing a short conversation with Stav Shaffir , the youngest female member of Israe...

Itamar Rabinovich and Amos Harel discuss the state of the civil war in Syria, Iran's growing presence and what that means for Israel, and th...

In this episode of Intersections, Haroon Bhorat , nonresident senior fellow with the Africa Growth Initiative, and Homi Kharas , interim vic...

In this episode of Intersections, Amy Liu, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and Jason Miller, no...

In this episode of Intersections, Brookings Senior Fellow Ted Piccone talks with former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright and former Pri...

In this episode, Brookings experts Adie Tomer and Elizabeth Kneebone discuss the findings from their new report, " Signs of Digital Distress...

Darrell West , vice president and director of Governance Studies, and Camille Busette , senior fellow and director of the Race, Prosperity,...

"Men who take up arms against one another in public war do not cease on this account to be moral beings, responsible to one another and to G...

While Intersections is on summer vacation, don't forget to tune into 5 on 45 and the Brookings Cafeteria , or catch up on some older episode...

David Victor , co-chair of the Energy Security and Climate Initiative at Brookings and professor of international relations at the Universit...

William Gale and Vanessa Williamson discuss what can be learned from state-level experiments in taxation in Kansas and California, Americans...

In this episode of Intersections, Benjamin Wittes and Jonathan Rauch , senior fellows in Governance Studies , address the importance of poli...

During the 50th anniversary of the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Brookings experts Bruce Riede l and Samantha Gross detail...

In this episode of Intersections, guest interviewer Ron Haskins , co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families, discusses ch...

Visiting Fellow Philippe Le Corre and Robert Bosch Senior Fellow Constanze Stelzenmüller with the Center on the U.S. and Europe at Brookings...

Adele Morris, senior fellow and policy director for Climate and Energy Economics, and David Victor, co-chair of the Energy Security and Clim...

Guest interviewer Esther Care, senior fellow in the Center for Universal Education, discusses with Ramya Vivekanandan, program specialist at...

Dany Bahar, fellow in Global Economy and Development, and Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Inte...

Jenny Perlman Robinson, fellow with the Center for Universal Education, and John McArthur, senior fellow in the Global Economy and Developme...

Elizabeth Mann and Jon Valant, both fellows in the Brown Center on Education Policy, lay out the status of federal versus state powers in ed...

Nicol Turner-Lee, a fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation, and Evan Swarztrauber, the communications directo...