Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

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

Street signs are pictured at the University of California San Diego (UCSD) in San Diego, California, February 28, 2013. Looming sequestration cuts are expected to adversely effect scientific research in San Diego. REUTER/Mike Blake (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS EDUCATION HEALTH SCIENCE TECHNOLOGY) - GM1E9310LEH01

How universities can help tackle global challenges

Maysa Jalbout and Fred Dews

Friday, November 29, 2019

U.S. President Donald Trump holds what appears to be a prepared statement and handwritten notes after watching testimony by U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland as he speaks to reporters prior to departing for travel to Austin, Texas from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, U.S., November 20, 2019. REUTERS/Erin Scott - RC26FD9ITUXN

What it means to impeach a president

Elaine Kamarck and Fred Dews

Friday, November 22, 2019

FILE PHOTO: Intravenous bags hang above young cancer patients at Rady's Children Hospital in San Diego, California, U.S., September 4, 2019. REUTERS/Mike Blake/File Photo - RC2EAD9AFK1N

The biggest health care issues of the 2020 election

Matthew Fiedler, Christen Linke Young, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 15, 2019

Berlin Wall in Los Angeles, California

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later

Constanze Stelzenmüller and Fred Dews

Friday, November 8, 2019

U.S. Marine sits in a foxhole and points a machine gun towards Beirut, Lebanon, in the distance

Beirut 1958: America’s first Middle East intervention

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, November 1, 2019

An hybrid flag depicting the EU and the British flags is seen during a debate on the last EU summit and Brexit at the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, October 22, 2019. REUTERS/Vincent Kessler - RC11B41DA370

Brexit and the new plan for Northern Ireland

Amanda Sloat and Fred Dews

Friday, October 25, 2019

Twelve Democratic presidential candidates participate in the fourth U.S. Democratic presidential candidates 2020 election debate in Westerville, Ohio, U.S., October 15, 2019. REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton - HP1EFAG066F9T

Policy 2020, your guide to the presidential election

David Wessel, Elaine Kamarck, and Stuart M. Butler

Friday, October 18, 2019

Gaelle Dule Asheri, 17, a soccer player, who is amongst the first wave of girls being trained by professional coaches at the Rails Foot Academy, attends a course at a bilingual high school as she prepares for her final baccalaureate exams in Yaounde, Cameroon, May 2, 2019. Asheri never gave up her dream despite strong opposition from her mother who feared she would lose her daughter to a "men's game". "I used to train with boys, so with boys there were some exercises I was not allowed to do because I am a girl," she said. When she first started playing soccer in the dirt streets near her home, she was the only girl on the informal neighbourhood teams. "I picked up the ball, I kicked it and I never looked back," Asheri said, recalling the childhood street soccer games with her male cousins and neighbours. REUTERS/Zohra Bensemra SEARCH "CAMEROON GIRLS" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES. - RC1B9C9DB020

Echidna Global Scholars: Learning across a girl’s lifetime

Fred Dews and Christina Kwauk

Friday, October 11, 2019

Soldiers of People's Liberation Army (PLA) march in formation past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Jason Lee - SP1EFA10HSD12

Global China’s plan for overseas military bases

Lindsey Ford, Mara Karlin, and Leah Dreyfuss

Friday, October 4, 2019

Military vehicles carrying DF-5B intercontinental ballistic missiles travel past Tiananmen Square during the military parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. - SP1EFA10JHH15

Deterring military conflict with a global China

Lindsey Ford, Michael E. O’Hanlon, and Caitlin Talmadge

Thursday, October 3, 2019

REFILE - REMOVING EXTRANEOUS WORD A float carrying a portrait of Chinese President Xi Jinping moves through Tiananmen Square during the parade marking the 70th founding anniversary of People's Republic of China, on its National Day in Beijing, China October 1, 2019. REUTERS/Thomas Peter - RC15CA56C990

Chinese domestic politics in the rise of global China

Lindsey Ford and Cheng Li

Wednesday, October 2, 2019