Brookings Cafeteria Podcast

Ten commitments to save democracy

Norman Eisen, Susan Corke, and Fred Dews

Friday, December 10, 2021

A viewer looks at some preliminary sketches by the visual artist Szczesny. Szczesny started the world's first cultural regatta on the Rhine. The Monheimer Kulturwerke and Szczesny designed 17 sails with the 17 Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations (UN). The regatta, with boats from the German Sailing League, aims to draw attention to the urgent issues facing our society.

17 Rooms, a new podcast for the Sustainable Development Goals

Friday, December 3, 2021

Community historian Morris “Dino” Robinson, who helped shape the Evanston’s reparations initiative, points to the borders of the Fifth Ward, which was the area of Evanston the city’s Black citizens were forced to move to due to redlining between 1919 and 1969, in Evanston, Illinois, U.S March 17, 2021. REUTERS/Eileen T. Meslar

When is a public policy racist?

William G. Gale and Fred Dews

Friday, November 26, 2021

An empty computer science classroom is seen at the University of Somalia in Mogadishu, July 13, 2017. Picture taken July 13, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar

Computer science education builds skills for life

Michael Hansen, Emiliana Vegas, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 19, 2021

U.S. President Donald Trump meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, Finland, July 16, 2018. Reuters photographer Kevin Lamarque: "Body language can give an ordinary photo much more meaning, and here, Trump and Putin did not disappoint." REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque SEARCH "TRUMP POY" FOR FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "REUTERS POY" FOR ALL BEST OF 2018 PACKAGES. TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY.

Putin, Trump, and the road to authoritarianism

Fiona Hill, Angela Stent, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 12, 2021

Teenage Girl At Home Using Digital Tablet Being Bullied On Line

Cyberbullying and bystander intervention

Melissa Brown, Rashawn Ray, and Fred Dews

Friday, November 5, 2021

Melting glacier in the Antarctic

What does success at the Glasgow climate conference (COP26) look like?

Amar Bhattacharya and Fred Dews

Friday, October 29, 2021

A general view of the U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS), in Washington, D.C., on November 20, 2020, amid the coronavirus pandemic. As confirmed COVID-19 case counts soar with the country experiencing exponential growth, President Donald Trump continues to deny the Biden Transition team access to government funding and data. (Graeme Sloan/Sipa USA)No Use UK. No Use Germany.

Ending the state and local taxes (SALT) deduction

Richard V. Reeves and Fred Dews

Friday, October 22, 2021

Several hundred immigration activists gather near the White House on October 7, 2021 to urge the Biden administration to pass a pathway to citizenship for millions of immigrants (Photo by Bryan Olin Dozier/NurPhoto)NO USE FRANCE

Politics and the pandemic in Latino and Native American communities

Gabriel R. Sanchez and Fred Dews

Friday, October 15, 2021

An affordable housing development is under construction in an area of Los Angeles deemed an opportunity zone. Handout photo by Martin Cuellar/SoLa Impact.

Unpacking Opportunity Zones tax havens

David Wessel and Jim Tankersley

Friday, October 8, 2021

Diverse crowd of people illustration

White decline and increased diversity in America’s aging population

William H. Frey and Fred Dews

Friday, October 1, 2021

President Joe Biden, King Abdullah II and Crown Prince Al Hussein Bin Abdullah II of Jordan walk along the Colonnade of the White House on Monday, July 19, 2021, to the Oval Office. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz via Sipa USA)Please note: Fees charged by the agency are for the agencys services only, and do not, nor are they intended to, convey to the user any ownership of Copyright or License in the material. The agency does not claim any ownership including but not limited to Copyright or License in the attached material. By publishing this material you expressly agree to indemnify and to hold the agency and its directors, shareholders and employees harmless from any loss, claims, damages, demands, expenses (including legal fees), or any causes of action or allegation against the agency arising out of or connected in any way with publication of the material.No Use Germany.

Jordan and America’s decades-long friendship

Bruce Riedel and Bill Finan

Friday, September 24, 2021

Hand out photo dated May 30, 2020 of The Arleigh-burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG 52) conducts a replenishment at sea training evolution alongside the Nimitz class aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Two US aircraft carriers have carried out drills in the South China Sea, a US Navy spokesman said Saturday, after the Pentagon expressed concerns over Chinese military exercises around a disputed archipelago. The USS Nimitz and USS Ronald Reagan conducted dual carrier operations in the waterway to "support a free and open Indo-Pacific," the spokesman said. China's expanding military presence in the contested waters has worried several of its neighbours. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. j.g. Samuel Hardgrove via ABACAPRESS.COM

Rule the waves, rule the world

Bruce Jones and Fred Dews

Friday, September 17, 2021

An American flag and red rose stand in the names of those lost at the edge of the south reflecting pool of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum ahead of the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in lower Manhattan in New York City, New York, U.S., September 8, 2021. REUTERS/Mike Segar

How 9/11 changed the policy world

Madiha Afzal, Scott R. Anderson, John Hudak, Elaine Kamarck, Suzanne Maloney, Bruce Riedel, and Fred Dews

Friday, September 10, 2021

Jenny Doss, an early childhood special education teacher at Ben Franklin Elementary School, works with her K-5 class at the school in Menomonee Falls on June 8. Doss is speaking out against Republican lawmakers' spending proposal, which only calls for a slight boost in special education funding.MJS-special education funding00p1

Challenges to early childhood education in the wake of COVID-19

Jon Valant, Miriam Calderon, Jenna Conway, and Christina Weiland

Friday, September 3, 2021