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
Do Common Core Standards Really Matter?
Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and mathematics. Despite initial enthusiasm, criticism of and outright opposition …
00:31:09 |
Fri 25 Apr 2014
Governing a Changing Arctic
The Arctic is changing. As the polar ice cap recedes, new shipping routes are opening up and access to Arctic energy resources is expanding. , a nonresident senior fellow with the at Brookings, expl…
00:26:42 |
Fri 11 Apr 2014
Measuring the Pursuit of Happiness
"Happiness." "Contentment." "Subjective well-being." Can we measure how happy people are and if so, what can we do with this information? In this podcast, , the Leo Pasvolsky Senior Fellow and author…
00:28:46 |
Fri 28 Mar 2014
Presidents Deliver the Bacon, Too
Pork barrel spending has traditionally been understood as the exclusive domain of Congress. Yet recent presidents are highly engaged in the practice, too, as demonstrates in his illuminating new boo…
00:31:13 |
Fri 14 Mar 2014
A Bleak Picture for Children's Education in the Arab World
"More than half of Arab children are not learning," says Senior Fellow in this new podcast about learning in the Arab world. He joined , a fellow also with the at Brookings, in this discussion abou…
00:28:50 |
Fri 28 Feb 2014
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly Global Challenges
From East Asia to Africa, through Afghanistan to Syria and the greater Middle East, Senior Fellow guides us on a brief tour of the good, the bad, and in some cases, the ugly challenges facing our wo…
00:33:32 |
Fri 14 Feb 2014
America's War on Poverty Moves to the Suburbs
Poverty in the United States looks different now than it did when President Lyndon Johnson declared an "unconditional war on poverty" 50 years ago. With the publication of their book, , Elizabeth Kne…
00:29:24 |
Wed 22 Jan 2014
Cybersecurity and Cyberwar: What You Need To Know
"Cyber issues have been too long been left only to the 'IT' crowd, ... when it's something—whether you are working in politics, in media, in military, in law, in business, or just frankly as a good c…
00:33:55 |
Wed 08 Jan 2014
The Intersection of Politics and Policy Is a Lonely Place
"The intersection of politics and policy is a lonely place," writes Senior Fellow in her new book . In this podcast, Kamarck, founding director of the , touches on the ideas and examples in her book…
00:27:48 |
Fri 20 Dec 2013
Congressional Master Class: The Senate Filibuster, Congress and the Federal Reserve
In this podcast, congressional expert explains why the Senate filibuster is a historical mistake. She talks about her research on Congress’s relationship with the Federal Reserve and addresses wheth…
00:26:35 |
Fri 06 Dec 2013
Educating Children Worldwide Takes Access Plus Learning
Universal primary education by 2015 is one of the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals. While great progress has been made in expanding educational access, are children learning what they nee…
00:29:23 |
Fri 22 Nov 2013
Ending Extreme Global Poverty
The number of people worldwide living in extreme poverty—defined as living on $1.25 a day or less—was cut in half between 1990 and 2010. Yet more than one billion people still subsist at this level, …
00:36:30 |
Fri 08 Nov 2013
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