Brookings President John R. Allen on Russia, Ukraine, China, and leading the Institution forward
In this final episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, John R. Allen, president of the Brookings Institution, offers his views on Russia'...
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Host Fred Dews interviews experts from the Brookings Institution, a nonprofit public policy organization (think tank) based in Washington, D.C., about their research and ideas on solutions t...
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20 of 434 episodesMore than ever, cities and metro areas matter for America's future
Amy Liu, vice president and director of Brookings Metro, says that more than ever, cities and metro areas matter for America's future. They...
Political polarization in America is worse than ever, and what we can do about it
Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies, says the forces that have fueled political polarization and extremism in th...
Political polarization in America is worse than ever, and what we can do about it
Darrell West, vice president and director of Governance Studies, says the forces that have fueled political polarization and extremism in th...
Challenges in the post-COVID global economic recovery
Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, vice president and director of the Global Economy and Development program at Brookings, addresses the divergent...
The state of jobs and the US labor market
Stephanie Aaronson, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, discusses the state of jobs and the U.S. labor market. Sho...
The state of jobs and the US labor market
Stephanie Aaronson, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, discusses the state of jobs and the U.S. labor market. Sho...
Iran's nuclear aspirations
Suzanne Maloney, vice president and director of Foreign Policy at Brookings, discusses the state of negotiations aimed at reviving the Iran...
How to fix America's broken housing systems
On this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria, an expert on housing policy discusses her new book that addresses America's housing challenges a...
Valuing Black assets in Black communities
Andre Perry, a senior fellow in Brookings Metro and author of "Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America's Black Cities,"...
Invest in brain health to combat America's crisis of despair
Carol Graham, the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and director of research in Global Economy and Development, who is an expert on a range of iss...
Russia, China, and beyond: Key U.S. foreign policy challenges
Senior Fellow Michael O'Hanlon discusses some of the most challenging foreign policy issues facing the United States today, from Russia to C...
Is American democracy failing?
Is America's democracy failing and putting the U.S. economic system at risk? That's the question in the title of a new report from Governanc...
The top economic issues in 2022
This is the Brookings Cafeteria podcast's seventh annual look at the top economic issues of the coming year. And discussing the state of the...
Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2021
To celebrate the closing of another tumultuous year, this episode features our favorite clips from past 12 months. We hope you enjoy it, tak...
Brookings Metro at 25: Building a more prosperous, just, and resilient future
Last month, Brookings Metro, formerly the Brookings Metropolitan Policy Program, turned 25. Since Brookings Metro's conception in 1996, Amer...
Ten commitments to save democracy
The two-day, virtual Summit for Democracy convened by President Biden and that wrapped up on December 10 aimed to rally nations around the w...
17 Rooms, a new podcast for the Sustainable Development Goals
This is a rebroadcast of the first episode of a new show from the Brookings Podcast Network—"17 Rooms," a podcast about actions, insights, a...
When is a public policy racist?
Jim Crow laws that prevented Black citizens from voting are clearly racist, as are redlining practices that excluded Black homebuyers from w...
Computer science education builds skills for life
Computer science education in K-12 schools matters, not because it's about training the next generation of computer programmers, but because...