Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

A large Indonesian flag is carried over the crowd at a rally calling for national unity and tolerance in central Jakarta, Indonesia December 4, 2016. REUTERS/Darren Whiteside - RC127395AEE0

Indonesia, an unlikely democracy

Jonathan Stromseth, Thomas Pepinsky, and Fred Dews

Friday, March 15, 2019

People gather during a nationwide strike against the government's refusal to raise wages in Tunis, Tunisia January 17, 2019. REUTERS/Zoubeir Souissi - RC180C53AD40

The next democracy debate in the Middle East: Democracy and Disorder Podcast Series

Torrey Taussig, Salam Fayyad, and Sharan Grewal

Tuesday, March 12, 2019

Rivlin podcast collage

Alice Rivlin: A career spent making better public policy

Alice M. Rivlin and Fred Dews

Friday, March 8, 2019

An officer adjusts China's national flag before the ASEAN Plus Three (APT) Summit in Singapore, November 15, 2018. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha - RC1C8843E420

Challenges to democracy in East Asia: Democracy and Disorder Podcast Series

Torrey Taussig, Mireya Solís, and Jonathan Stromseth

Tuesday, March 5, 2019

Nathan Allen, 65, poses for a portrait in front of the motorhome where he sleeps in a homeless RV and tent encampment near LAX airport in Los Angeles, California, United States, October 26, 2015. Allen lost his job as a handyman, and so couldn't afford to pay the rent for his apartment. Los Angeles is grappling with a massive homelessness problem, as forecasted El Nino downpours threaten to add to the misery of thousands of people who sleep on the streets. Mayor Eric Garcetti has proposed spending $100 million to combat the problem in the sprawling metropolis but stopped short of declaring a state of emergency. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson PICTURE 16 OF 17 - SEARCH "NICHOLSON MOTORHOME" FOR ALL IMAGES - GF10000270563

Why nonworking men are unhappiest in America

Carol Graham and Fred Dews

Friday, March 1, 2019

India's Border Security Force (BSF) soldiers patrol along the fenced border with Pakistan in Ranbir Singh Pura sector near Jammu February 26, 2019. REUTERS/Mukesh Gupta - RC1D32EEA1F0

The India-Pakistan crisis

Tanvi Madan and Joshua T. White

Thursday, February 28, 2019

The word "Frexit" is seen on a banner as protesters take part in a demonstration by the "yellow vests" movement in Paris, France, February 16, 2019. REUTERS/Benoit Tessier - RC1752CAE600

Challenges to democracy in Europe: Democracy and Disorder Podcast Series

Torrey Taussig, Célia Belin, and Constanze Stelzenmüller

Tuesday, February 26, 2019

Things as they were, and things as they are, ca 1853 (via LOC)

How we connect: Network revolutions from Gutenberg to Google

Tom Wheeler and Bill Finan

Friday, February 22, 2019

Brookings hosts political leader Stacey Abrams in a conversation about race and political power in the United States with Jelani Cobb, Columbia University's Lipman professor of journalism Friday, Feb. 15, 2019 in Washington. (Sharon Farmer/sfphotoworks)

Stacey Abrams on how to overcome voter suppression

Stacey Abrams, Jelani Cobb, and Fred Dews

Friday, February 15, 2019

Robotic arms spot welds on the chassis of a Ford Transit Van under assembly at the Ford Claycomo Assembly Plant in Claycomo, Missouri April 30, 2014. REUTERS/Dave Kaup (UNITED STATES - Tags: BUSINESS TRANSPORT) - GM1EA510A6N01

How automation and AI are redefining work

Mark Muro and Fred Dews

Friday, February 8, 2019

Brandon Stanard, 24, a student at Lincoln University, recites Martin Luther King, Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech to a gathering crowd at the base of a statue of the civil rights leader at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial on Martin Luther King Jr. Day in Washington, U.S., January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Allison Shelley TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY - RC1FB437CDE0

Black History Month: Creating environments of belonging

Camille Busette and Fred Dews

Friday, February 1, 2019

FILE PHOTO OF FEBRUARY 1979 - Supporters of the leader and founder of the Islamic revolution Ayatollah Khomeini hold his picture in Tehran during the country's revolution in February 1979. Iraninans celebrate the 20th anniverssary of the Revolution this week.DS/WS - RP1DRIHULAAA

Listen: Iran’s 1979 revolution and its legacies today

Daniel L. Byman, Jeffrey Feltman, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 25, 2019

A voter exits a voting booth after filling out his ballot in the U.S. presidential primary election at the Stark Volunteer Fire Department in the village of Stark, New Hampshire, February 9, 2016. REUTERS/Mike Segar - GF10000302166

How America’s presidential primaries work and what to expect in 2020

Elaine Kamarck and Bill Finan

Friday, January 18, 2019

Indonesian Muslims attend Friday prayers at the Istiqlal mosque in Jakarta July 23, 2010. Indonesia's Muslims learned last week they have been praying in the wrong direction, after the country's highest Islamic authority said its directive on the direction of Mecca actually had people facing Africa. Muslims are supposed to face the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia during prayer and the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI) issued an edict in March stipulating westward was the correct direction from the world's most populous Muslim country. It has now said the true direction is north-west. REUTERS/Supri (INDONESIA - Tags: RELIGION ODDLY IMAGES OF THE DAY) - GM1E67N18IZ01

How Saudi Arabia and Iran use Islam in foreign policy

Shadi Hamid, Peter Mandaville, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 11, 2019

A screen displays a chart of the Dow Jones Industrial Average after the close of trading on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., December 20, 2018. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid - RC1BF3A8FA20

The top economic issues in 2019

David Wessel and Fred Dews

Friday, January 4, 2019