Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

infrastructure highway image

Betting on the future with infrastructure

Adie Tomer and Fred Dews

Friday, April 16, 2021

Benjamin Banneker Senior High School (Nyttend, Wikimedia Commons)

What online forum discussions reveal about segregation in DC public schools

Vanessa Williamson and Fred Dews

Friday, April 9, 2021

Kindergarten teacher Princess Bryant prepares her classroom, from where she will begin the new school year teaching classes virtually because of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, at the Tynan Elementary School in Boston, Massachusetts, U.S., September 18, 2020. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

Why teacher diversity benefits students of color

Michael Hansen and Fred Dews

Friday, April 2, 2021

MOSCOW, RUSSIA FEBRUARY 18, 2021: Piles of snow are seen in Vasilyevsky Spusk Street off Red Square. Seen in the distance is Spasskaya Tower of the Moscow Kremlin and St Basil's Cathedral. On 18 February, daytime temperatures in Moscow varied between -19 and -13 degrees Celsius. Between 12 and 14 February, Moscow received nearly 85% of a months worth of precipitation. Stanislav Krasilnikov/TASS.No use Russia.

An American journalist in Cold War Moscow

Marvin Kalb and Bill Finan

Friday, March 26, 2021

women laundry workers

Policy priorities for women, by women

Madiha Afzal, Kristen Broady, Camille Busette, Emily Cleffi-Tristani, Vanda Felbab-Brown, Annelies Goger, Carol Graham, Helen Shwe Hadani, and Elaine Kamarck

Friday, March 19, 2021

This visible image captured by the NASA's GOES-13 satellite at 2:31 p.m. EST (1931 GMT) and released to Reuters on February 1, 2011 shows the low pressure area stretching from the Colorado Rockies and Texas east to New England. A colossal winter storm stretching from New Mexico to Maine hit the heartland of the United States with snow, high winds and freezing rain on Tuesday, and experts said the worst was still to come as the monster event moved northeast and temperatures plunged. REUTERS/NASA/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: ENVIRONMENT) FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS

Proposals for US climate leadership and managing built environment risks and costs

Nathan Hultman, Joseph W. Kane, and Fred Dews

Friday, March 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station is seen in Fukushima Prefecture in this photo taken by the Air Photo Service on March 24, 2011. Mandatory Credit Air Photo Service/Handout via REUTERS/File Photo ATTENTION EDITORS - MANDATORY CREDIT. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. SEARCH "10TH ANNIVERSARY OF JAPAN'S QUAKE, TSUNAMI AND NUCLEAR DISASTER" FOR THE PHOTOS.

Lessons from the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, 10 years on

Bill Finan and Yoichi Funabashi

Friday, March 5, 2021

Earth networks

Proposals to meet global challenges in artificial intelligence and technology regulation

Joshua P. Meltzer, Landry Signé, and Fred Dews

Friday, February 26, 2021

The U.S. Capitol is seen on Thursday, February 18, 2021, in Washington, DC. (Photo by Oliver Contreras/Sipa USA)No Use Germany.

Proposals to streamline and improve US government performance

Elaine Kamarck, Molly E. Reynolds, and Fred Dews

Friday, February 19, 2021

a social network diagram

How social networks impact economic mobility

Camille Busette and Fred Dews

Friday, February 12, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Shipping containers stand at a port in Bangkok, Thailand, March 25, 2016. REUTERS/Athit Perawongmetha/File Photo

The US-China strategic rivalry in Southeast Asia

David Dollar, Jonathan Stromseth, and Bill Finan

Tuesday, February 9, 2021

FILE PHOTO: A money changer counts Nigerian currency notes for a customer in Nigeria's commercial capital, Lagos, Nigeria March 16, 2020. REUTERS/Temilade Adelaja/File Photo

How Africa can emerge stronger after COVID-19

Aloysius Uche Ordu and Fred Dews

Friday, February 5, 2021

The sun rises on the first day of Eid al-Fitr in Amman August 19, 2012. Eid-al-Fitr marks the end of Ramadan, the holiest month on the Islamic calendar. REUTERS/Muhammad Hamed (JORDAN - Tags: CITYSPACE ENVIRONMENT RELIGION)

Proposals for the Biden administration on the Middle East and countering extremism

Madiha Afzal, Tamara Cofman Wittes, and Fred Dews

Friday, January 29, 2021

FILE PHOTO: Joe Biden is sworn in as the 46th president of the United States by Chief Justice John Roberts as Jill Biden holds the Bible during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, U.S., January 20, 2021. Andrew Harnik/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo

Biden’s inauguration, Trump’s impeachment, and the politics ahead

Elaine Kamarck and Fred Dews

Friday, January 22, 2021

Washington DC, United States.- In the photo taken on January 14, 2020, local and federal security officials near the Capitol in Washington, D.C. Is expect about 20,000 National Guard members to be involved for President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration next week. "I think you can expect to see somewhere upwards of beyond 20,000 members of the National Guard that will be here in the footprint of the District of Columbia," Washington Metropolitan Police Chief Robert Contee said on Wednesday.

After the insurrection, ideas to tackle polarization in America

Darrell West and Fred Dews

Friday, January 15, 2021