Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas and Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi hold a joint news conference in Berlin, Germany, February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Hannibal Hanschke

Global China’s relationship with Europe

Lindsey Ford and Thomas Wright

Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Students wear masks of China's President Xi Jinping as other waves national flags of India and China, ahead of the informal summit with India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, at a school in Chennai, India, October 10, 2019. REUTERS/P. Ravikumar TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY

How China shapes U.S.-India relations

Tanvi Madan and Bill Finan

Friday, February 21, 2020

Leader of Italy's far-right party Matteo Salvini attends a news conference a day after the Senate voted to remove his legal protection, opening the way for a trial over accusations he illegally detained migrants at sea last year, in Rome, Italy, February 13, 2020. REUTERS/Guglielmo Mangiapane

The rise of populism in US and European politics

Célia Belin, Giovanna De Maio, and Fred Dews

Friday, February 14, 2020

A woman leaves a voting station in a polling place at the Canterbury Town Hall polling station in Canterbury, New Hampshire February 9, 2016. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - D1BESMAVHBAB

24 hours in New Hampshire

Elaine Kamarck and Chris McKenna

Friday, February 7, 2020

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS) building, with the partial quote "taxes are what we pay," in Washington May 27, 2015. Tax return information for about 100,000 U.S. taxpayers was illegally accessed by cyber criminals over the past four months, U.S. IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of data thefts that have alarmed American consumers. The entire quote chiseled on the building, from Oliver Wendell Holmes, reads, "Taxes are what we pay for a civilized society''. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

Larry Summers on progressive tax reform

Jay Shambaugh and Lawrence H. Summers

Friday, January 31, 2020

Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games - Closing Ceremony - Carrara Stadium - Gold Coast, Australia - April 15, 2018. Jessie Lartey of Ghana, Roilya Ranaivosoa of Mauritius, Jenito Guezane of Mozambique, Esther Oyama of Nigeria and Esther Oyama of Nigeria carry the national flags as they walk among athletes and staff members. REUTERS/David Gray

Challenges and opportunities for Africa’s next decade

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, January 24, 2020

An Electroimpact automated fiber placement machine, which lays down carbon fiber strips onto the 777X spar, is seen during a media tour of the Boeing 777X at the Boeing Composite Wing Center in Everett, Washington, U.S., February 27, 2019. Picture taken February 27, 2019. REUTERS/Lindsey Wasson

How will automation impact middle-class jobs?

Marcus Casey and James Bessen

Friday, January 17, 2020

FILE PHOTO: Balloons decorate an event for community activists and local government leaders to mark the one-year-out launch of the 2020 Census efforts in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., April 1, 2019. REUTERS/Brian Snyder/File Photo

What America’s slow-growing population means for immigration, the Electoral College, and more

William H. Frey and Fred Dews

Friday, January 10, 2020

A "Now Hiring" sign hangs on the door to the Urban Outfitters store at Quincy Market in Boston, Massachusetts September 5, 2014. U.S. employers hired the fewest number of workers in eight months in August and more Americans gave up the hunt for jobs, providing a cautious Federal Reserve with more reasons to wait longer before raising interest rates. Nonfarm payrolls increased 142,000 last month after expanding by 212,000 in July, the Labor Department said on Friday. The jobless rate fell one-tenth of a percentage point to 6.1 percent, partly because people dropped out of the labor force. REUTERS/Brian Snyder (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS EMPLOYMENT)

The top economic issues in 2020

Stephanie Aaronson, Louise Sheiner, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 3, 2020

Brookings Podcast Network studio

Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2019

Friday, December 27, 2019

A security officer keeps watch in front of an AI (Artificial Intelligence) sign at the annual Huawei Connect event in Shanghai, China September 18, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song - RC192A130D00

AI will affect better-paid workers, but will it displace them?

Mark Muro and Fred Dews

Friday, December 20, 2019

A poster supporting Aung San Suu Kyi as she attends a hearing at the International Court of Justice is seen in a road in Yangon, Myanmar, December 12, 2019. REUTERS/Ann Wang - RC2RTD98VHU5

Burma at a crossroads

Jonathan Stromseth, Thant Myint-U, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 13, 2019

Workers of the health sector take part in a protest due to the shortages of basic medical supplies and against the government of Venezuelas President Nicolas Maduro, outside a hospital in Caracas, Venezuela November 19, 2019. REUTERS/Carlos Garcia Rawlins - RC2GED9PK8S0

Interview with Colombia’s top official for the Venezuelan refugee crisis

Dany Bahar and Felipe Muñoz

Tuesday, December 10, 2019

Deputy Assistant Attorney General Adam Hickey, Bill Priestap, assistant director of the FBI's Counterintelligence Division, and Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz are sworn in during a Judiciary Committee hearing into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., July 26, 2017. REUTERS/Aaron P. Bernstein - RC14DA9ED4D0

Who are the Inspectors General and what do they do?

Bill Finan, Kathryn Newcomer, and Charles A. Johnson

Friday, December 6, 2019

A heart-shaped Chinese flag installation ahead of the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China is seen on a street in Shanghai, China September 26, 2019. REUTERS/Aly Song TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC17E098C350

Global China’s ambitions across East Asia

Lindsey Ford, Richard C. Bush, Jonathan Stromseth, and Lynn Kuok

Tuesday, December 3, 2019