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Vying for Talent is a podcast about the role human talent plays in the sprawling competition between China and the United States. Join Ryan Hass of the Brookings Institution and Jude Blanchette of the Center fo...

From hurricanes and floods, to wildfires and extreme temperatures, climate change is happening all around us. In this podcast series, energy and climate expert Samantha Gross, director of the Energy Security an...

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 Network produ...

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The world is a particularly confusing and daunting place these days: Russian bots, North Korean nukes, trade wars and climate emergencies. To understand it better, Foreign Policy and the Brookings Institution a...

Economic recovery. Elections. Terrorism. Global poverty. Trade. Policy issues are complex and multi-faceted. Want more than the 30-second soundbyte? Tune in to Intersections, a podcast from the Brookings Instit...

William Galston, Brookings senior fellow in Governance Studies, discusses the speeches by former president Barack Obama, former president George Bush, and former presidential candidate Senator John McCain that ...

Juliana Barbassa and Theresa Williamson, two contributors to "" from the Brookings Institution Press, discuss the corruption, disruption, and overall economic costs of hosting last year’s summer Olympic Games i...

In this episode of Intersections, Amy Liu, vice president and director of the Metropolitan Policy Program at Brookings, and Jason Miller, nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and CEO of the Greater Washington...

Daniel Byman, senior fellow in Foreign Policy in the Center for Middle East Policy, explains which acts of violence in the United States fit the description of terrorist acts. He discusses the events in Las Veg...

Suzanne Maloney, deputy director of the Foreign Policy program, discusses Trump’s announcement that he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the U.S.-Iran Nuclear Agreement. She explains that Trump’s actions ...

Nathan Hultman, nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development studies, explains the legal, moral, and technical justifications that the Trump administration provided in defense of the Environmenta...

In the second part of a two-part series on challenges facing U.S. foreign assistance, experts from the global development community discuss the importance of the private sector in aid financing, measuring aid e...

Philip Wallach, senior fellow in Governance Studies, discusses EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s plan to rescind the Clean Power Plan, and looks at the future of U.S. climate action policy. Subscribe to Brooking...

Nicol Turner-Lee, fellow in the Center for Technology Innovation in the Governance Studies program, discusses the prevalence of white supremacy in America and the Trump administration’s response to it. Turner-L...

Leading voices from the global development community, including , a senior fellow in the program, discuss the challenges facing U.S. foreign aid. These experts were all participants at the 14th annual . The ex...