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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
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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
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John Villasenor, nonresident senior fellow in Governance Studies and the Center for Technology Innovation, discusses his... Read more
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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
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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
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The 1967 Arab-Israeli War
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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