Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

U.S. special envoy James Dobbins (R) addresses reporters during a flag raising ceremnoy in U.S. embassy in Kabul December 17, 2001. The United States re-established a diplomatic presence in the Afghan capital, Kabul, on Monday for the first time since its diplomats fled the city shortly before the end of the Soviet occupation in 1989.

A life in foreign service

Ambassador James Dobbins, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, July 14, 2017

The Eiffel tower is illuminated in green with the words "Paris Agreement is Done", to celebrate the Paris U.N. COP21 Climate Change agreement in Paris, France, November 4,

After the Paris climate accord

Nathan Hultman and Fred Dews

Friday, July 7, 2017

A U.S. worker inspects a section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite t

Can President Trump implement his immigration agenda?

Elaine Kamarck and Fred Dews

Friday, June 30, 2017

A woman holds a protest sign for net neutrality. New FCC rule making could affect internet freedom.

Net neutrality: The war is over

Stuart N. Brotman and Fred Dews

Friday, June 23, 2017

Water is seen in a pond in front of Beverly Hills' city sign

Hoarding the American Dream

Richard V. Reeves, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 16, 2017

Graduating students arrive for Commencement Exercises at Boston College in Boston, Massachusetts,

Career paths and earnings after college

Ryan Nunn and Fred Dews

Friday, June 9, 2017

A convoy of Israeli tanks rolls towards the front during the 1967 Middle East War

Podcast: The 1967 War

Khaled Elgindy, Shadi Hamid, Martin S. Indyk, Natan Sachs, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Fred Dews

Friday, June 2, 2017

A woman stitches leather gloves at the Pittards world class leather manufacturing company in Ethiopia's capital Addis Ababa

Is Africa still rising?

Brahima Sangafowa Coulibaly and Fred Dews

Friday, May 26, 2017

Zhang Yingyi, a 30-year-old administrative assistant and a mother of a three-year-old girl, smiles as she poses for a photograph at her home in Shanghai, China,

The global middle class

Homi Kharas and Fred Dews

Friday, May 19, 2017

Person wearing a European Union-themed flag beret

Europe and the world

Javier Solana and Fred Dews

Friday, May 12, 2017

The skyline of downtown is pictured at sunset in Los Angeles March 3, 2009. Picture taken with long shutter speed. REUTERS/Mario Anzuoni (UNITED STATES) - RTXCBU7

Demography and democracy

William H. Frey and Fred Dews

Friday, May 5, 2017

Law students shout slogans during a demonstration against the government in Tunis, Tunisia

Tunisian youth and their politics

Sarah Yerkes and Fred Dews

Friday, April 28, 2017

Russian President Vladimir Putin attends a joint news conference with Italian President Sergio Mattarella after their talks at the Kremlin in Moscow, Russia April 11, 2017. Sputnik/Alexei Druzhinin/Kremlin via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY. - RTX353WK

What Putin and Russia want

Pavel K. Baev and Fred Dews

Friday, April 21, 2017

U.S. 1040A Individual Income Tax forms are seen at a U.S. Post office in New York April 15, 2010. April 15 is the deadline for filing taxes in the United States. REUTERS/Mike Segar (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS) - RTR2CUPG

Proud to pay taxes

Vanessa Williamson and Fred Dews

Friday, April 14, 2017

The damaged Oroville Dam spillway is pictured in an aerial view in Oroville, California, U.S. in this February 26, 2017 handout photo. Kelly M. Grow/ California Department of Water Resources/Handout via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. EDITORIAL USE ONLY THIS PICTURE WAS PROCESSED BY REUTERS TO ENHANCE QUALITY. AN UNPROCESSED VERSION WILL BE PROVIDED SEPARATELY. - RTS10UBN

The water problem

Patricia Mulroy, Bill Finan, and Fred Dews

Friday, April 7, 2017