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
Jihadist terrorism, Islamic State, and the war in Yemen
“We have successfully built up our defenses so that here, at home in the United States, we’re probably safer than we were a decade ago but abroad our terrorist enemy is more numerous, more barbaric, …
00:30:38 |
Thu 06 Aug 2015
Economic costs of hosting the Olympics and World Cup
“Go and interview a restaurateur in central London near Piccadilly or go and interview a theatre manager in central London about how their business was in central London in August of 2012 [during the…
00:43:43 |
Mon 13 Jul 2015
New Orleans’ resilience 10 years after Hurricane Katrina
“New Orleans is still in the middle of a major urban experiment,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast, the 50th episode of the Brookings Cafeteria. “It’s an urban experiment that is not so much just …
00:28:04 |
Tue 07 Jul 2015
Jean-Marie Guéhenno on his leadership of UN peacekeeping and "The Fog of Peace"
“More and more we see that the separation between war and peace is not as clear-cut as it used to be,” says Jean-Marie Guéhenno in this podcast. Guéhenno, president and CEO of the International Crisi…
00:24:42 |
Thu 18 Jun 2015
Why the European Union matters
“The European Union is, in a way, a treasure,” says Distinguished Brookings Fellow in this podcast. “It’s a treasure that really signifies peace, that signifies cooperation … the type of thing the g…
00:27:49 |
Thu 04 Jun 2015
Ukraine's struggle for independence
What is happening in Ukraine is a tremendous threat to Putin’s Russia precisely because of the kinship that Russians feel with Ukraine,” says in this podcast. Freeland, a Member of Parliament in Can…
00:40:45 |
Thu 21 May 2015
MOOCs, college costs, and the future of higher education
“Ten years from now college is going to look a lot different,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast. Butler, an expert on the future of higher education, economic mobility, budget process reform, and …
00:41:37 |
Thu 07 May 2015
Education challenges in the Arab world
“The Arab world has made huge progress in giving children access to school,” says , a nonresident fellow with the at Brookings. Yet even so, she calls the 2.6 million Syrian children out of school i…
00:26:18 |
Thu 23 Apr 2015
Taxes and the IRS
“Anger at the IRS for the complexity of the tax system is misplaced,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast. “The IRS does not legislate the tax code; Congress does. And if the tax code is complicated,…
00:21:03 |
Mon 13 Apr 2015
Vegas water czar on West’s water crisis
“I know that California has got a nightmare on [its] hands right now,” says , former general manager for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and now a Brookings nonresident senior fellow, in this pod…
00:28:48 |
Thu 09 Apr 2015
Robert Putnam on "Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis"
Brookings Fellows and speak with noted political scientist and author Robert Putnam, professor of public policy at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, about his new book . Putnam explains how a…
00:22:09 |
Thu 02 Apr 2015
Julia Gillard on the power of universal education
“The forces of darkness, the terrorists, know that education is a powerful change agent,” says former Australian Prime Minister in this podcast about her commitment to global education. Ms. Gillard,…
00:21:33 |
Thu 19 Mar 2015
The Federal Reserve and "Audit the Fed"
“The real question is, are the proponents of ‘Audit the Fed’ legislation seeking to make the Fed more accountable …? Or are they basically people who don’t like what the Fed is doing and see ‘Audit t…
00:29:12 |
Tue 03 Mar 2015
North and South Korea: Pride, Prejudice and Unification Challenges
"We have a deficit of knowledge about the Koreas" in both the academy and public discourse, says , the SK-Korea Foundation Chair in Korea Studies and a senior fellow in the Center for East Asia Polic…
00:56:03 |
Fri 20 Feb 2015
The Affordable Care Act, America's health, and leading the CBO
"I think the Affordable Care Act is actually doing quite well," says Senior Fellow in this podcast. Rivlin, the Leonard D. Schaeffer Chair in Health Policy Studies and director of the at Brookings,…
00:31:13 |
Fri 06 Feb 2015
Bruce Katz on the 21st Century Metro: Innovative, Powerful, and Leading the Country Forward
“Cities and metro areas are networks, they are not governments; therefore we need to put them central to the debate of how the country moves forward,” says in this podcast on the metropolitan revolu…
00:37:07 |
Tue 20 Jan 2015
Strobe Talbott on His Life, the World, and Everything
In this podcast, Brookings President reflects on growing up in Cleveland, his career—as a journalist, State Department Official, and think tank leader—and today’s challenges for governance and stabi…
00:47:58 |
Fri 09 Jan 2015
Nixon and Moynihan: White House Odd Couple
In 1969, a conservative president made a liberal professor his urban affairs adviser in the White House. When Richard Nixon brought Daniel Patrick Moynihan onto the White House staff, the consequence…
00:59:07 |
Thu 18 Dec 2014
How to Make Government Programs Work
“One thing most people don't know is that our [social] programs don't work,” says Senior Fellow in this podcast about how the Obama administration is starting to create a “culture of evidence” for t…
00:47:49 |
Fri 05 Dec 2014
Our Dysfunctional Politics and the Road to 2016
“The Republican Party has become like a parliamentary party, vehemently oppositional and opposed to anything that the other party would do,” says in this podcast in which he shares his expertise and…
00:53:11 |
Fri 21 Nov 2014
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