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
Race and gender gaps in COVID-19 deaths
Senior Fellow Richard Reeves discusses his analysis of data on COVID-19 deaths and why a disproportionate number of men, and Black people, are dying. Also, Molly Reynolds explains what actions Con…
00:31:20 |
Fri 19 Jun 2020
Global China's ambitions in the Indian Ocean region
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Lindsey Ford, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, interviews two scholars on two important aspects of China's increasing global…
00:31:32 |
Tue 16 Jun 2020
Tracking COVID-19's spread into less urban, whiter, and more Trump-friendly places
Senior Fellow William Frey from the Metropolitan Policy Program at the Brookings Institution has been tracking COVID-19's spread from mostly urban areas that have a large number of African American r…
00:24:58 |
Fri 12 Jun 2020
How digital privacy law asymmetries can hurt criminal defendants
A defendant in a criminal trial is accused of threatening someone over a social media app. The prosecution can subpoena digital records from the social media company to build its case against the def…
00:42:24 |
Fri 05 Jun 2020
A roadmap for reopening America
The Brookings Institution hosted a virtual event to complement the launch of a new publication on how to reopen America. The event opened with keynote remarks from Dr. Jennifer Nuzzo of Johns Hopkins…
01:32:34 |
Wed 03 Jun 2020
Immigrants and the coronavirus pandemic: A conversation with Rep. Judy Chu
In this episode, Governance Studies Senior Fellow John Hudak interviews Representative Judy Chu (D-Calif.), who represents California's 27th Congressional District, about immigrants and immigration i…
00:30:28 |
Fri 29 May 2020
A new paradigm for valuing Black communities
In his new book, "Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities," just published by Brookings Institution press, Andre Perry takes readers on a tour through six-majority…
00:35:37 |
Fri 22 May 2020
Gender equality, unpaid work, and women's suffrage
Senior Fellow Isabel Sawhill leads a conversation with Stephanie Aaronson, the vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, and Molly Kinder, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in the Metr…
00:45:34 |
Fri 15 May 2020
The case for reparations for Black Americans
Is it time to pay reparations to the descendants of enslaved Black Americans? That’s the topic of a new Big Ideas paper from the Brookings Policy 2020 initiative, and the authors--Rashawn Ray and …
00:37:45 |
Tue 12 May 2020
Addressing COVID-19 in resource-poor and fragile countries
Responding to coronavirus as individuals, society, and governments is challenging enough in the United States and other developed countries with modern infrastructure and stable systems, but what hap…
00:53:47 |
Sat 09 May 2020
Techstream: Where technology and policy intersect
On this episode, a discussion about a new Brookings resource called Techstream, a publication site on brookings.edu that puts technologists and policymakers in conversation. Chris Meserole, a fellow …
00:29:09 |
Fri 08 May 2020
Technology competition between the US and a Global China
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Lindsey Ford, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, interviews two scholars on some of the key issues in the U.S.-China technolog…
00:37:45 |
Tue 05 May 2020
Kim Jong Un’s ascent to power in North Korea
In her new book, "Becoming Kim Jong Un: A Former CIA Officer's Insights into North Korea's Enigmatic Young Dictator," Brookings Senior Fellow Jung Pak describes the rise of North Korea's ruler. In th…
00:47:20 |
Fri 01 May 2020
Global China's advanced technology ambitions
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria Podcast, Lindsey Ford, a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, interviews two authors of the most recent release of papers in the Global Chi…
00:28:43 |
Tue 28 Apr 2020
How the US embassy in Prague aided Czechoslovakia's Velvet Revolution
In late 1989, popular protests against the communist government in Czechoslovakia brought an end to one-party rule in that country and heralded the coming of democracy. The Velvet Revolution was not …
00:22:16 |
Fri 24 Apr 2020
How US military services are responding to the coronavirus and the pandemic's impact on military readiness
On this special edition of the podcast, four U.S. military officers who are participating in the 2019-2020 class of Federal Executive Fellows at Brookings share their expert insights about the effect…
00:23:24 |
Tue 21 Apr 2020
Why Boko Haram in Nigeria fights western education
The terrorist group Boko Haram has killed tens of thousands of people in Nigeria, displaced millions, and infamously kidnapped nearly 300 schoolgirls in 2014, many of whom remain missing. The phrase …
00:32:47 |
Fri 17 Apr 2020
What Americans think about President Trump's response to the coronavirus pandemic
In this special edition of the podcast, with Brookings Senior Fellows Bill Galston and Elaine Kamarck discuss President Trump’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, his administration's response, an…
00:29:20 |
Wed 15 Apr 2020
What coronavirus teaches us about addressing climate change
On this episode, Andrea Risotto, the associate vice president of communications at Brookings, interviews William Burke-White and Todd Stern about the connection between the global coronavirus pandemi…
00:41:00 |
Fri 10 Apr 2020
How cities and states are responding to COVID-19
As Congress passes multi-trillion dollar economic support packages in response to the economic and physical shocks of the coronavirus pandemic, what are state and local governments doing to respond? …
00:42:02 |
Fri 03 Apr 2020
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