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The Brookings Cafeteria
From 2013–2022, the Brookings Cafeteria podcast presented experts, ideas, and solutions across a range of policy topics. You can listen to past episodes at brookings.edu/BCP. The Brookings Podcast Network produces other policy-oriented shows that may interest you. Learn more at brookings.edu/podcast...
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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's war on U...
More 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 are at the...
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 the U.S. eve...
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 the U.S. eve...
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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 paths bet...
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. Show notes a...
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. Show notes a...
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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 nuclear de...
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 and propose...
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,” published...
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 issues relate...
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 China, from...
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 Governance Studies...
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 U.S. econ...
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, take the oppo...
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, America’s citi...
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 world again...
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, and communi...
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 white neigh...
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 computer...
Putin, Trump, and the road to authoritarianism
On this episode, a discussion with experts Fiona Hill and Angela Stent on Russia’s re-emergence as a great power after the Cold War ended, under the l...
Cyberbullying and bystander intervention
Seventy percent of people report that they have done something abusive to someone else online, and a majority report being cyberbullied themselves. Ne...
What does success at the Glasgow climate conference (COP26) look like?
Global leaders are gathering in Glasgow in the coming weeks as the United Kingdom hosts the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parti...
Ending the state and local taxes (SALT) deduction
Millions of American taxpayers itemize their deductions, one of which is for state and local taxes, or the SALT deduction. Most of these filers are at...
Politics and the pandemic in Latino and Native American communities
This episode features an interview with an expert who calls immigration and the Latino vote a golden opportunity for Democrats in 2022. Gabriel Sanche...
Unpacking Opportunity Zones tax havens
David Wessel, a senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy at Brookings, is author of the new book “Only the Rich...
White decline and increased diversity in America's aging population
America’s white population is declining and aging, while the share of Latinos or Hispanics, Asians, and people who identify as two are more races is i...
Jordan and America's decades-long friendship
For over 70 years, Jordan has been an important ally in the Middle East for the United States, a connection built largely on the relationships between...
Rule the waves, rule the world
Oceans are at the center of global competition, climate, and trade. In his new book, “To Rule the Waves: How Control of the World’s Oceans Shapes the...
How 9/11 changed the policy world
Twenty years after the 9/11 attacks, six Brookings scholars reflect on their personal experiences of that terrible day, and offer expert insights into...
Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19
As students return to schools across the country, this episode of the Brookings Cafeteria features a rebroadcast of a recent online event from the Bro...
Why high unemployment persists for Black workers
Disparities between Black workers and white workers in employment and labor force participation existed long before the coronavirus pandemic, and the...
The Taliban takes Afghanistan
On this episode, in the wake of the Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan, a discussion of the forces and issues that have shaped Afghanistan over t...
Why it's harder for American workers to get ahead, and what we can do about it
On this 400th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, Marcela Escobari, a senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at Brookings, talks abou...
How to make retirement income more accessible for all Americans
Millions of households have built financial security through pensions and retirement saving plans, but millions more remain unable to access these wea...
After the COVID-19 lockdowns, how to fix benefit delivery tech for workers
The COVID-19 lockdowns in 2020 caused a tidal wave of displaced workers who applied for unemployment insurance, or UI. But states, hampered by limited...
A plan for marijuana policy reform
An interview with Brookings Senior Fellow John Hudak about his new paper, "Reversing the War on Drugs: A five-point plan," in which he lays out a seri...
The Trump Organization tax fraud charges
Just days before tax fraud, larceny, and other charges against the Trump Organization and one of its top executives were filed in New York, Brookings...
Global China's growing role in the world
China is no longer just a rising power; it is now a truly global actor, economically and militarily. In a new book from the Brookings Institution Pres...
Dirty money in offshore banks
Billions of dollars and other currencies are in tax havens outside the owner’s country of origin, allowing individuals and corporations to evade taxat...