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
What happened in Iowa and the next presidential primaries
, a fellow in the Governance Studies Program at Brookings, explains why the Iowa Caucuses matter so much in the presidential election. She also discusses what to expect from Congress this year for bo…
00:33:29 |
Fri 05 Feb 2016
Celebrating the Brookings Centenary: The Trustees
This episode features two of the leaders of the Brookings Institution: the co-chairs of the , John L. Thornton and David M. Rubenstein. They reflect on our first 100 years and share their thoughts on…
00:21:08 |
Thu 28 Jan 2016
Made in Africa: manufacturing and economic growth
In this week’s episode, , a senior fellow in the Global Economy and Development Program, assesses the potential role of several economic strategies in transforming Africa’s industrial development for…
00:46:44 |
Thu 21 Jan 2016
Obama and the 2016 elections
Tune in to hear , senior fellow in , and , senior fellow and the Ezra K. Zilkha Chair in and former policy advisor to President Bill Clinton, review President Obama’s State of the Union address and …
00:36:06 |
Fri 15 Jan 2016
Top economic issues in 2016
, vice President and director of the Economic Studies Program at Brookings and the Joseph A. Pechman Senior Fellow, forecasts the top economic issues in the upcoming year.
Tune in to hear more about …
00:27:09 |
Fri 08 Jan 2016
Best of the Brookings Cafeteria in 2015
In this last episode of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast for 2015, you'll hear some of the best moments from the show selected from the year's episodes.
Thanks to the team that makes this podcast poss…
00:31:28 |
Thu 31 Dec 2015
Why girls’ education is the world’s best investment
, senior fellow and director of the Center for Universal Education at Brookings, discusses her new book (co-authored with Gene Sperling and Christina Kwauk) "" (Brookings Institution Press, 2015).
“G…
00:21:35 |
Tue 22 Dec 2015
Foreign policy issues the candidates should be talking about
“A lot of the issues that we focus on as crises on a daily basis—I think particularly of Syria—they are certainly crises in their own right,” says . “But to my mind the failure to deal with them does…
00:35:25 |
Fri 18 Dec 2015
Hong Kong, China, and the Umbrella Movement
, director of the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and holder of the Chen-Fu and Cecilia Yen Koo Chair in Taiwan Studies and also the Michael H. Armacost Chair, talks about Hong Kong’s relationshi…
00:35:55 |
Fri 11 Dec 2015
College Rankings: Is there a better system?
, fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, tells us what’s missing in conventional college ranking systems like that of U.S. News & World Report. And using President Obama’s new colleg…
00:38:32 |
Thu 03 Dec 2015
The ISIS attack on Paris
, an expert on counterterrorism and Middle East Security, and research director for the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings, explains what we know and don’t know about the ISIS terrorist attac…
00:22:27 |
Thu 19 Nov 2015
Paris climate conference (COP21): what you need to know
, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and Ittleson Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at Brown University discusses climate change and the upcoming global climate talks in Paris.
“S…
00:44:55 |
Fri 13 Nov 2015
The 2016 presidential election and why primaries matter
This week, talks presidential primaries, congressional primaries, and the problems facing our current nominating system. She also offers predictions on the likely GOP and Democratic presidential nom…
00:26:04 |
Fri 06 Nov 2015
Ukraine’s long Russian entanglement
, a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and former CBS News Correspondent, discusses his new book "."
“I think since 1991 at the end of the Soviet Union, the end of Communism as a global philosoph…
00:31:46 |
Fri 30 Oct 2015
Can we end rural hunger and reach the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?
and discuss their Ending Rural Hunger project, designed to help the world achieve one important facet of the “No Hunger” Sustainable Development Goal.
“[P]robably about ¾ of the [food insecurity] …
00:45:08 |
Fri 23 Oct 2015
A discussion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
Fellows and from the Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings debate the challenges facing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
“In the long term, [Hamas] is not where peace lies… What doomed t…
00:47:24 |
Fri 16 Oct 2015
The future of American land warfare
“To use some of the time honored clichés, ‘The enemy may get a vote too.’ Or the Bolshevik line, ‘You may not have an interest in war, but war may have an interest in you.’ I paraphrase that to say w…
00:34:10 |
Thu 08 Oct 2015
The plight of Syrian refugees
“For someone who has followed these issues from 1989 ... it is a sad moment,” says in this podcast. “It is a sad moment because we feel that international solidarity is not there. And that solidarit…
00:54:39 |
Fri 25 Sep 2015
U.S.-Iran relations, the Iran nuclear deal, and the future of Iran
“Iran gets out of jail free. I mean, they’re out of the penalty box at this point," says Senior Fellow in this podcast on Iran in a post-nuclear deal world. "The rest of the world will do business a…
00:30:04 |
Fri 11 Sep 2015
Community colleges and college affordability
“Almost half of undergraduates in the United States start at a community college,” says Fellow in this podcast. Soliz, a new fellow in the at Brookings, identifies challenges faced by students look…
00:19:08 |
Fri 21 Aug 2015
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