Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

Edward Snowden speaks via video link during a conference at University of Buenos Aires Law School, Argentina, November 14, 2016. REUTERS/Marcos Brindicci - S1BEUMUQOXAA

After Snowden—surveillance, protecting privacy, and reforming the NSA

Bill Finan, Timothy Edgar, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 22, 2017

Emily Harp, Human Resources Specialist for the Colorado Department of Transportation, speaks to a job seeker at the Construction Careers Now! hiring event in Denver, Colorado U.S. August 2, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking - RC1DDEECAE90

10 years after the Great Recession, why aren’t more Americans working?

Fred Dews, Jay Shambaugh, and Ryan Nunn

Friday, September 15, 2017

Richard Saunders, director of public safety of the Tohono O'odham Nation, walks along the vehicle barrier on the U.S.-Mexico border that crosses through the Tohono O'odham reservation in Chukut Kuk, Arizona April 6, 2017. Picture taken April 6, 2017. REUTERS/Rick Wilking - RC1519AB0360

The true costs of Trump’s border wall (part 2)

Fred Dews and Vanda Felbab-Brown

Friday, September 8, 2017

Children play at a newly built section of the U.S.-Mexico border wall at Sunland Park, U.S. opposite the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico November 18, 2016. Picture taken from the Mexico side of the U.S.-Mexico border. Picture taken November 18, 2016. REUTERS/Jose Luis Gonzalez - RC1262C82C30

The true costs of Trump’s border wall (part 1)

Vanda Felbab-Brown and Fred Dews

Friday, September 1, 2017

The U.S. Capitol dome in Washington

Limitations of the Senate filibuster

Molly E. Reynolds and Bill Finan

Friday, August 25, 2017

A woman shops for food

Welfare, segregation, economic mobility

Bradley Hardy and Fred Dews

Friday, August 18, 2017

A man walks on the corniche in Doha, Qatar,

Crisis in Qatar

Nader Kabbani and Fred Dews

Friday, August 11, 2017

HCCSCentralCampus

The community college-employer connection

Elizabeth Mann and Fred Dews

Friday, August 4, 2017

Visitors look at a mock Nagasaki-type atomic bomb named "Fat Man"

Weapons of mass destruction and global health security

Bonnie Jenkins and Fred Dews

Friday, July 28, 2017

A couple look through a window during a strike called to protest against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro's government in Caracas, Venezuela,

Crisis in Caracas, unrest in Venezuela

Dany Bahar and Fred Dews

Friday, July 21, 2017

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