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/podcasts. Follow on Twitter @policypodcasts.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 36 minutes
- Episodes
- 432
- Years Active
- 2013 - 2022
Israel’s election result and what comes next
A conversation about what happened in Israel's election, between Natan Sachs--director of the Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution--and Ilana Dayan, an investigative journalist …
00:44:16 |
Wed 10 Apr 2019
How to cure America’s debt addiction (and invest in the future)
Under current policies the federal debt will rise from 78% to almost 180% of U.S. GDP in three decades. In his new book, "," Brookings Senior Fellow explores policies to raise revenue, control spend…
00:39:05 |
Fri 05 Apr 2019
NATO at 70 is more than a military alliance
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization turns 70 in April. To discuss challenges to and opportunities for the alliance as it enters its eighth decade, this episode features a discussion among a group …
01:01:06 |
Fri 29 Mar 2019
Fixing bail, fines, and fees in the criminal justice system
The share of felony defendants in the criminal justice system who are required to post bail to avoid pre-trail detention is increasing, while the share released without bail is dropping. Simultaneous…
00:42:00 |
Fri 22 Mar 2019
India’s role as a democracy in the liberal international order
Since its independence from Britain in 1947, India has evolved into a strong electoral democracy—the largest in the world—and one that has proven resilient in the face of the populist tide pressuring…
00:27:20 |
Tue 19 Mar 2019
Indonesia, an unlikely democracy
Indonesia, a presidential democracy, is the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populated on earth. It is also the largest nation in Southeast Asia—Indonesia’s archipelago…
00:40:24 |
Fri 15 Mar 2019
The next democracy debate in the Middle East
The Arab Spring movements that started in 2010 and 2011 across North Africa and the Middle East sparked a new debate on the future of democracy in the region. Yet in the years since, the region has …
00:44:46 |
Tue 12 Mar 2019
Alice Rivlin: A career spent making better public policy
"I was always interested in doing good policy analysis, and improving the policy process," says in this interview about her career in public policy and contributions to making the policy process bet…
00:28:05 |
Fri 08 Mar 2019
The challenges to democracy in East Asia
East Asia is home to diverse political regimes, economies, and religions, and is central to global economic trade and growth. But it is also a region increasingly defined by U.S.-China competition. M…
00:35:07 |
Mon 04 Mar 2019
Why nonworking men are unhappiest in America
In new research, Carol Graham and Sergio Pinto assesses the troublesome levels of ill-being among out-of-work men, and the challenges this poses to the future of work and the future of the middle cla…
00:33:28 |
Fri 01 Mar 2019
The India-Pakistan crisis
A new crisis has been unfolding over the past weeks between India and Pakistan. To help you understand what's been going on, what's new, and the road ahead, two Brookings experts discussed the crisis…
00:35:35 |
Thu 28 Feb 2019
The challenges to democracy in Europe
This episode is the first of a four-part podcast series from the at the Brookings Institution, and is hosted by —a nonresident fellow with the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings and…
00:50:39 |
Tue 26 Feb 2019
How we connect: Network revolutions from Gutenberg to Google
“How we connect defines who we are,” says Brookings visiting fellow and former FCC chair on today’s episode. He is the author of the new book published by the Brookings Institution Press titled, “,”…
00:24:27 |
Fri 22 Feb 2019
Stacey Abrams on how to overcome voter suppression
In 2018 Stacey Abrams ran in Georgia to become the nation’s first African-American female governor. Despite a narrow defeat in the race, Abrams and her campaign launched a new national conversation a…
00:34:08 |
Fri 15 Feb 2019
How automation and AI are redefining work
How will automation change the way we live and work? Will robots take your job? These and related questions have been asked about labor and the economy for decades, and with more urgency as artificia…
00:38:54 |
Fri 08 Feb 2019
Black History Month: Creating environments of belonging
, senior fellow and director of the at Brookings, illuminates Brookings scholars' research during Black History Month, with a focus on building more inclusive economies, addressing structural inequi…
00:28:58 |
Fri 01 Feb 2019
Iran’s 1979 revolution and its legacies today
In a special episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast, five Brookings experts—, , , , and —describe how the consequences of Iran’s 1979 revolution affected Iran and the region and continue to shape…
01:07:58 |
Fri 25 Jan 2019
How America’s presidential primaries work and what to expect in 2020
, senior fellow and founding director of the at the Brookings Institution, talks with Brookings Institution Press Director Bill Finan about the third edition of her book, “.” She explains how the mo…
00:28:25 |
Fri 18 Jan 2019
How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy
and , both experts in the at Brookings, discuss their new paper, “.” Their research focuses largely on how both Saudi Arabia and Iran employ Islam as a soft power tool in the conduct of their foreig…
00:57:57 |
Thu 10 Jan 2019
The top economic issues in 2019
, senior fellow and director of the , discusses the top economic issues facing the United States in the upcoming year. Also in this episode, , fellow in Governance Studies, offers her analysis of iss…
00:22:33 |
Thu 03 Jan 2019
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