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Dollar and Sense is a podcast about all things trade. From local ports and markets to international trade and diplomacy, Brookings Institution Senior Fellow David Dollar and guests explain how our global tradin...

The Brookings Podcast on Economic Activity connects you to cutting edge economic policy research and the renowned economists who create it. On each episode, the Brookings Papers on Economic Activity editors int...

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...

This podcast feed featured recordings of public event audio from the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. We're closing up the Brookings event podcast feed as of February 18, 2022. Brookings event audio, v...

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...

, a senior fellow in the program and director of the  at the Brookings Institution, discusses her new report " " and addresses the costs associated with implementing Trump's proposed policies. Also in this epi...

In this episode of Intersections, Benjamin Wittes and Jonathan Rauch, senior fellows in Governance Studies, address the importance of political institutions in relation to direct democratic participation and di...

, a nonresident senior fellow in the , provides a brief history of net neutrality and addresses the future of the FCC's telecommunications rule-making under Title II. Also in this episode: , a fellow in , gives...

, a senior fellow in Economic Studies and co-director of the Center on Children and Families, discusses his new book  and outlines why distinctions in the American middle class matter.  Also in this episode: , ...

Ryan Nunn, a fellow in Economic Studies and policy director for the Hamilton Project, addresses the earnings of college graduates based on their choices in career path and course of study.  Also in this episode...

During the 50th anniversary of the 1967 war between Israel and its Arab neighbors, Brookings experts Bruce Riedel and Samantha Gross detail the consequences of that struggle for Saudi Arabia and the Gulf states...

Between June 5 and June 10, 1967, Israel and an Arab coalition of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan fought a war that Israelis call the Six Day War, and that Arabs generally call the June War. By war’s end, Israel had c...

, director of the  and senior fellow in , discusses his new role at the Africa Growth Initiative and what challenges and opportunities African nations are facing today.  Also in this episode, provides his regu...

In this episode of Intersections, guest interviewer Ron Haskins, co-director of the Brookings Center on Children and Families, discusses changes in the social safety net and the role of cash assistance in meeti...

, senior fellow and co-director of , discusses his report, "" and explores the challenges and opportunities this brings in emerging and developing economies.  Also in this episode, , fellow in , provides her re...