Founded in 1916, Brookings has been a driving force in shaping effective public policy for more than a century. These highlights showcase some of the many people and ideas that have contributed to the Institution’s legacy and left a lasting impact on policy and governance today.
The Hutchins Center on Fiscal and Monetary Policy: The first ten years
Global Trade
A memorial tribute to David Dollar
Internet & Telecommunications
Pixels and progress: The evolution of brookings.edu since 1995
4 ideas from Brookings that have withstood the test of time
Brookings’s role in “the greatest reformation in governmental practices”—the 1921 budget reform
Brookings’s analysis and recommendations on the Great Depression of the 1930s
Brookings’s role in the Marshall Plan
LBJ at Brookings, 50 years ago
Society & Culture
In Daniel Patrick Moynihan Prize speech, Ron Haskins and Isabel Sawhill stress importance of evidence-based policy
Race in Public Policy
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., and other experts reflect on black America since MLK
Federal Reserve
Janet Yellen on her love for economics, Greenspan’s “irrational exuberance,” and leading 19 Fed policymakers
Global Trade
Brookings Press book wins Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize
Economic Security & Mobility
President Bill Clinton: Poverty Is Not Just a Statistic; It’s the Story of People’s Lives
U.S. Government & Politics
WATCH: Stacey Abrams on how to address voter suppression
International Affairs
Justice Stephen Breyer: If You Want to Preserve American Values, Learn Something from Abroad
Democracy, Conflict, & Governance
Condoleezza Rice: Democracy is easy to take for granted until something breaks, and then it’s too late