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
Proposals for the Biden administration on the Middle East and countering extremism
Brookings scholars Tamara Wittes and Madiha Afzal discuss their policy proposals for international security, part of the new Blueprints for American Renewal & Prosperity project at Brookings. Wittes …
00:59:32 |
Fri 29 Jan 2021
Biden's inauguration, Trump's impeachment, and the politics ahead
Elaine Kamarck, senior fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings and founding director of the Center for Effective Public Management, reflects on inauguration day, on the difficult presidential trans…
00:35:27 |
Fri 22 Jan 2021
After the insurrection, ideas to tackle polarization in America
After the assault on the U.S. Capitol, the nation is divided and on edge. Where do we go now? What kinds of political, social, and economic reforms could help us move forward as a more united nation?…
00:53:40 |
Fri 15 Jan 2021
The top economic issues in 2021
Stephanie Aaronson, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, and Wendy Edelberg, senior fellow and director of the Hamilton Project, share their views on the state of the U.S. ec…
00:36:46 |
Fri 08 Jan 2021
Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2020
To celebrate the closing of the year, this episode features our favorite clips from past 12 months. We hope you enjoy it and perhaps take the opportunity to download full episodes that interest you, …
00:40:53 |
Wed 30 Dec 2020
Organizing the presidency, from Roosevelt to Biden
When Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as president in 1933, the White House staff numbered fewer than fifty people, and most federal departments were lightly staffed as well. As the United State…
00:24:06 |
Wed 23 Dec 2020
Proposals for U.S. economic growth and dynamism
Brookings scholars William Gale and Richard Reeves discuss their policy proposals for economic growth and dynamism, part of the new Blueprints for American Renewal & Prosperity project. Gale focuses …
00:49:03 |
Fri 18 Dec 2020
Proposals for racial justice and worker mobility
Brookings scholars Annelies Goger and Martha Ross discuss their policy proposals for racial justice and worker mobility, part of the new Blueprints for American Renewal & Prosperity project. Also, To…
00:56:04 |
Fri 11 Dec 2020
Playful learning: A new path to education reform
“The American education system is not preparing all children to thrive,” say the guests on this episode, adding that many schools continue to operate according to an early 20th century “factory model…
00:42:00 |
Fri 04 Dec 2020
Trump, Biden, and the future of the liberal world order
The world is at a turning point as major institutions and alliances are being tested as never before in the post-Cold War period. On this episode, Brookings Institution Press Director Bill Finan spea…
00:19:36 |
Fri 27 Nov 2020
Future trends for Israel and the Middle East
A number of major trends—including changes in climate, demographics, geopolitics, and technology—will shape the Middle East over the next two decades. In this special episode of the Brookings Cafeter…
00:26:36 |
Fri 20 Nov 2020
Pursuing sustainable development amidst global challenges
A conversation with John McArthur, director of the new Center for Sustainable Development at Brookings, whose mission is to pursue research and insights to advance global sustainable development and …
00:39:40 |
Fri 13 Nov 2020
Election 2020: Where does it stand, what's next, what happens in a transition?
It’s three o’clock PM on the East Coast of the United States, two days after the end of voting in the 2020 presidential election. The country is anxiously watching as ballots are counted in Nevada, N…
00:20:56 |
Thu 05 Nov 2020
Race and social justice in the 2020 presidential election
In this final episode before the end of the 2020 election on November 3, a conversation with Rashawn Ray, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Governance Studies at Brookings, about race and social justic…
00:48:55 |
Fri 30 Oct 2020
State and local issues in the 2020 election
The big contest in the 2020 election is the presidency, but Americans across the country are voting and will vote for governors, state lawmakers and other state officials, local officials, and for ba…
00:28:50 |
Fri 23 Oct 2020
Economic issues in the 2020 election, and beyond
David Wessel, senior fellow and director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal & Monetary Policy at Brookings, discusses the key economic issues during the lead up to the 2020 election, and looks ahead to…
00:21:48 |
Fri 16 Oct 2020
Global China is contesting the US-led order
In this final special episode in the Global China series, host Lindsey Ford speaks with Ryan Hass and Rush Doshi about what they learned from the Global China paper series about China's ambitions, an…
00:34:45 |
Tue 13 Oct 2020
Foreign policy's role in the 2020 presidential election
From Russia, China, and the Middle East, to trade wars, climate change, and terrorism, global affairs have rarely seemed as complex and dangerous as it they have been over the last few years. But, do…
00:32:33 |
Fri 09 Oct 2020
The 2020 election in blue metros and red states
In this special edition of the podcast, Bill Finan—director of the Brookings Institution Press—talks with two of the authors of a new Brookings press book that explores America’s current political di…
00:23:13 |
Tue 06 Oct 2020
Will the 2020 presidential election be safe and secure?
Will the 2020 election be compromised by foreign interference? Is voting by mail secure? Can American voters have faith in the integrity our electoral system? To answer these and related questions, I…
00:45:01 |
Fri 02 Oct 2020
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