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
Election 2016 and low-income white Americans
Carol Graham, senior fellow in Global Economy and Development, explores the socioeconomic factors impacting the health and happiness of low-income white Americans and how they are playing out in the …
00:44:10 |
Fri 28 Oct 2016
How the next president can impact US alliances and the international liberal order
As part of the Brookings Election 2016 project, the Brookings Podcast Network brings you a special edition episode in which Indira Lakshamanan, Washington columnist for the Boston Globe and contribut…
01:03:38 |
Thu 27 Oct 2016
Globalization and the 2016 presidential election
Homi Kharas, deputy director in the Global Economy and Development program and one of the authors of Brookings’s new “11 Global Debates” series, examines how issues of globalization are playing out i…
00:32:25 |
Fri 21 Oct 2016
Down-ballot races in the 2016 election
Molly Reynolds, fellow in Governance Studies, examines the upcoming down-ballot races and how they will shape Congress and state governments. Also in this episode, John Hudak, deputy director of the …
00:32:24 |
Fri 14 Oct 2016
Minority voting in the 2016 election
Fredrick C. Harris, nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center on African American Politics and Society at Columbia University, and guest interviewer Adrianna Pita, ho…
00:38:58 |
Fri 07 Oct 2016
What does success in the Middle East look like for the next president?
As part of the Brookings Election 2016 project, the Brookings Cafeteria brings you a special edition podcast where Indira Lakshamanan, columnist for the Boston Globe, moderates a conversation with Ro…
01:03:15 |
Thu 06 Oct 2016
Foreign policy issues in the presidential election
Michael O’Hanlon, senior fellow in Foreign Policy and co-director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence, discusses ISIS, refugees, trade, and other foreign policy issues weighing o…
00:39:38 |
Fri 30 Sep 2016
Economic issues in the presidential election
David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, looks at Hillary Clinton’s and Donald Trump’s different approaches to policy issues including taxes, fam…
00:48:37 |
Fri 23 Sep 2016
Syrian refugees and Western inaction
Guest host Robert McKenzie, visiting fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World, and Leon Wieseltier, the Isaiah Berlin Senior Fellow in Culture and Policy, discuss how Western in…
00:53:39 |
Fri 16 Sep 2016
U.S. business in Africa
Amadou Sy, senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative, addresses both the opportunities and challenges of U.S. economic engagement in Africa as the second U.S.-Africa Business Forum a…
00:43:08 |
Fri 09 Sep 2016
Why presidents fail
Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow in Governance Studies and director of the Center for Effective Public Management, talks about why we need a managerial presidency, a central argument in her most recent …
00:22:57 |
Fri 02 Sep 2016
Financial ecosystems and the move toward equity
John Villasenor, nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation, discusses his new report on digital and financial inclusion. Also stay tuned for our regular…
00:19:10 |
Fri 26 Aug 2016
The case for trade and the TPP
Mireya Solís, senior fellow and the Philip Knight Chair in Japan Studies in the Brookings Center for East Asia Policy Studies, explores the domestic and international importance of the Trans-Pacific …
00:32:12 |
Fri 19 Aug 2016
America’s 'insane' politics
Jonathan Rauch, senior fellow in Governance Studies, expands on his widely popular new article in The Atlantic titled, “How American Politics Went Insane.” Also in this episode, Metropolitan Policy P…
00:23:31 |
Fri 12 Aug 2016
Brazil on the global stage
Harold Trinkunas, senior fellow and director of the Latin America Initiative at Brookings, and David Mares, guest scholar in the Latin America Initiative, discusses their new book Aspirational Power:…
00:28:09 |
Fri 05 Aug 2016
Fracking + election update
After the conventions, a presidential election update from . In the interview, , senior fellow and policy director of the discusses a plan to address the economic boom-bust cycle in states that rely…
00:33:42 |
Fri 29 Jul 2016
Coup attempt in Turkey
Kemal Kirişci, TÜSİAD Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy, discusses the recent coup in Turkey and its implications for Turkey’s regional role, foreign policy, and its democracy. Also in this podcast our…
00:32:43 |
Fri 22 Jul 2016
Islam: A conversation with Shadi Hamid
Shadi Hamid, senior fellow in the Project on U.S. Relations with the Islamic World in the Center for Middle East Policy and author of the new book , discusses his own personal experience as an Americ…
00:56:18 |
Fri 15 Jul 2016
What Brexit means for Britain and the EU
, director of the at Brookings and a senior fellow in , discusses the decision of a majority of voters in Britain to leave the E.U. and the consequences of Brexit for the country’s economy, politics…
00:49:52 |
Fri 08 Jul 2016
Arne Duncan on solutions to Chicago’s youth violence crisis
, former U.S. secretary of education during the Obama administration and now a nonresident senior fellow with the Brown Center on Education Policy, discusses the crisis of youth violence in Chicago a…
00:37:41 |
Fri 01 Jul 2016
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