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
Brookings experts on the $2 trillion coronavirus response package
The U.S. Congress has passed a $2 trillion economic support package in response to coronavirus. To analyze what’s in the measure, a group of scholars from the Economic Studies program at Brookings li…
00:26:56 |
Sat 28 Mar 2020
The 1979 Iranian Revolution's enduring impact on the world
In a new book from the Brookings Institution Press, titled "The Iranian Revolution at Forty," more than two dozen experts look back on the rise of the Islamic Republic and explore what the startling …
00:29:40 |
Fri 27 Mar 2020
Fiona Hill on the role of expertise and public servants in a time of crisis
On this episode, Brookings President John R. Allen interviews Brookings Senior Fellow Fiona Hill about the role that public servants and expertise have during a time of crisis. Also on the show, S…
00:44:38 |
Fri 20 Mar 2020
The Affordable Care Act at 10 years
On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, perhaps the most significant change in health care policy since the passage of Medicare and Medicaid i…
00:35:34 |
Fri 13 Mar 2020
America’s housing crisis and the gatekeeping of opportunity
Jenny Schuetz, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program and an expert on housing issues, interviews Conor Dougherty, an economics reporter at the New York Times and author of the new book Golden G…
00:49:32 |
Fri 06 Mar 2020
How racism hurts businesses in Black communities
Andre Perry, a fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings is the co-author of a new report that shows that highly rated businesses in Black-majority neighborhoods experience annual losses…
00:20:38 |
Fri 28 Feb 2020
Global China’s relationship with Europe
In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria, , a David M. Rubenstein Fellow in Foreign Policy, interviews Brookings Senior Fellow , director of the Center on the United States and Europe, abou…
00:26:28 |
Tue 25 Feb 2020
How China shapes U.S.-India relations
In the new book "," published this month by the Brookings Institution Press, author shows how U.S.-India relations have been shaped in the past and present by China. On this episode, Madan a senior …
00:34:36 |
Fri 21 Feb 2020
The rise of populism in US and European politics
Giovanna DeMaio and Célia Belin, two Brookings visiting scholars from Europe, were recently in New Hampshire and Iowa to observe American politics up close. They offer fascinating insights on what th…
00:59:19 |
Fri 14 Feb 2020
24 hours in New Hampshire
In this special episode, join us for a trip to New Hampshire in the lead up to the first-in-the-nation primary. Brookings podcast producer Chris McKenna joined Senior Fellow Elaine Kamarck for a visi…
00:33:16 |
Fri 07 Feb 2020
Larry Summers on progressive tax reform
On this episode: the Iowa caucuses, tax reform, and meet a scholar who studies global poverty reduction. First up, a Brookings expert answers a student’s question about why the Iowa caucuses are so i…
00:49:16 |
Fri 31 Jan 2020
Challenges and opportunities for Africa’s next decade
This episode features an interview with Dr. Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly, senior fellow and director of the Africa Growth Initiative at Brookings, about the initiative’s new report, "Foresight Africa:…
00:42:44 |
Fri 24 Jan 2020
How will automation impact middle-class jobs?
This is an episode in three parts. First, Marcus Casey interviews James Bessen, executive director of the Technology and Policy Research Initiative at Boston University’s School of Law, on how automa…
00:31:16 |
Fri 17 Jan 2020
What America’s slow-growing population means for immigration, the Electoral College, and more
Bill Frey, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and one of the nation’s leading experts on U.S. population demographics, talks about his new analysis of Census Bureau data …
00:32:38 |
Fri 10 Jan 2020
The top economic issues in 2020
, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, and , the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow and policy director of the Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy, share their views on t…
00:25:31 |
Fri 03 Jan 2020
Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2019
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, …
00:49:33 |
Fri 27 Dec 2019
AI will affect better-paid workers, but will it displace them?
How will artificial intelligence (AI) affect work? While it seems likely that automation and robotics will impact, or even displace, jobs on the lower-end of the income and education spectrum, AI may…
00:37:19 |
Fri 20 Dec 2019
Burma at a crossroads
Senior Fellow , the Lee Kuan Yew Chair in Southeast Asian Studies at Brookings, interviews , a Burmese historian, writer, and former government advisor. Thant is the author of the new book, . Also on…
00:39:04 |
Fri 13 Dec 2019
Interview with Colombia’s top official for the Venezuelan refugee crisis
Dany Bahar, fellow in Global Economy and Development at Brookings, shares his interview with Felipe Muñoz, advisor to the President of Colombia for the Colombian-Venezuelan Border. Mr. Muñoz is the C…
00:28:15 |
Tue 10 Dec 2019
Who are the Inspectors General and what do they do?
In a new book from the Brookings Institution Press titled “U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times,” authors Charles Johnson and Kathryn Newcomer explore the strategic environment i…
00:29:27 |
Fri 06 Dec 2019
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