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The Brookings Cafeteria

From 2013–2022, the Brookings Cafeteria podcast presented experts, ideas, and solutions across a range of policy topics. You can listen to past episodes at brookings.edu/BCP. The Brookings Podcast Net... Read more

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Do Common Core Standards Really Matter?

Do Common Core Standards Really Matter?

Forty-four states and the District of Columbia have adopted the Common Core State Standards in English language arts and... Read more

25 Apr 2014

31mins

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The next democracy debate in the Middle East

The next democracy debate in the Middle East

The Arab Spring movements that started in 2010 and 2011 across North Africa and the Middle East  sparked a new debate on... Read more

12 Mar 2019

44mins

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Financial ecosystems and the move toward equity

Financial ecosystems and the move toward equity

John Villasenor, nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation, discusses his... Read more

26 Aug 2016

19mins

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The Supreme Court after Scalia

The Supreme Court after Scalia

, a visiting fellow in Governance Studies and an expert on federal courts, discusses the process and politics of replaci... Read more

11 Mar 2016

31mins

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Indonesia, an unlikely democracy

Indonesia, an unlikely democracy

Indonesia, a presidential democracy, is the largest Muslim-majority nation in the world and the fourth most populated on... Read more

15 Mar 2019

40mins

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The 1967 Arab-Israeli War

The 1967 Arab-Israeli War

Between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel and an Arab coalition of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan fought a war that Israelis ca... Read more

2 Jun 2017

56mins

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Brexit and the new plan for Northern Ireland

Brexit and the new plan for Northern Ireland

Brexit—the departure of the United Kingdom from the European Union, has been scheduled to occur on October 31. But will ... Read more

25 Oct 2019

34mins

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The top economic issues in 2020

The top economic issues in 2020

, vice president and director of Economic Studies at Brookings, and , the Robert S. Kerr Senior Fellow and policy direct... Read more

3 Jan 2020

25mins

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Policy 2020, your guide to the presidential election

Policy 2020, your guide to the presidential election

Senior Fellow interviews Senior Fellows and about the new project and resource at Brookings. Policy 2020 empowers vo... Read more

18 Oct 2019

44mins

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Welfare, segregation, economic mobility

Welfare, segregation, economic mobility

, the Okun-Model Fellow in Economic Studies and an associate professor in the School of Public Affairs at American Unive... Read more

18 Aug 2017

51mins

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Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later

Fall of the Berlin Wall, 30 years later

On November 9, 1989, the government of East Germany announced that all of its citizens could visit West Germany and West... Read more

8 Nov 2019

29mins

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Global China’s ambitions across East Asia

Global China’s ambitions across East Asia

In this special edition of the Brookings Cafeteria, Lindsey Ford interviews a trio of Brookings experts on new papers fr... Read more

3 Dec 2019

55mins

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Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2019

Best of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast in 2019

To celebrate the closing of the year, this episode features our favorite clips from past 12 months. We hope you enjoy it... Read more

27 Dec 2019

49mins

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Hoarding the American Dream

Hoarding the American Dream

, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families, discusses his new book  an... Read more

16 Jun 2017

28mins

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Brookings experts on the $2 trillion coronavirus response package

Brookings experts on the $2 trillion coronavirus response package

The U.S. Congress has passed a $2 trillion economic support package in response to coronavirus. To analyze what’s in the... Read more

28 Mar 2020

26mins

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What America’s slow-growing population means for immigration, the Electoral College, and more

What America’s slow-growing population means for immigration, the Electoral College, and more

Bill Frey, a senior fellow in the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings and one of the nation’s leading experts on U.... Read more

10 Jan 2020

32mins

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A global response to the climate crisis

A global response to the climate crisis

The United Nations Climate Action Summit takes place during the UN General Assembly meetings in New York this month. Two... Read more

20 Sep 2019

31mins

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What does a global China mean for the US and the world?

What does a global China mean for the US and the world?

This is the first of five special episodes in a takeover of the Brookings Cafeteria podcast by the at Brookings, a mult... Read more

30 Sep 2019

26mins

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Who are the Inspectors General and what do they do?

Who are the Inspectors General and what do they do?

In a new book from the Brookings Institution Press titled “U.S. Inspectors General: Truth Tellers in Turbulent Times,” a... Read more

6 Dec 2019

29mins

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Career paths and earnings after college

Career paths and earnings after college

Ryan Nunn, a fellow in Economic Studies and policy director for the Hamilton Project, addresses the earnings of college ... Read more

9 Jun 2017

30mins

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