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The Brookings Current brings you smart, timely, and quick analysis from experts at the Brookings Institution on breaking news and current policy conversations. In these short episodes, learn not only what's happening, but why and how to make sense of it.

Episode Date
Understanding Pope Leo's AI encyclical
Jun 04, 2026
2 members of Congress on improving American education
May 27, 2026
Has the US lost the Iran war?
May 21, 2026
The Iran war is making energy more expensive for everyone
May 13, 2026
How executive orders are reshaping Black America
May 05, 2026
Will the Iran ceasefire hold?
Apr 23, 2026
What does the future hold for the IRS and Postal Service?
Apr 13, 2026
Rahm Emanuel: Both parties are failing American students
Apr 07, 2026
Off the court: How one basketball star's death is saving lives
Apr 02, 2026
What does China want from a Trump-Xi summit?
Apr 01, 2026
Beyond the Bracket: How basketball can prevent gun violence
Mar 26, 2026
How Minneapolis-Saint Paul community leaders responded to Operation Metro Surge
Mar 19, 2026
Can Iran's regime survive the war?
Mar 11, 2026
What's next for the Iran war? Experts discuss.
Mar 05, 2026
Americans are not as divided by race as it seems
Feb 27, 2026
From the halls of the Munich Security Conference
Feb 19, 2026
What's the state of our Union?
Feb 12, 2026
Did 'America First' tariffs work?
Feb 06, 2026
ICE: A predictable pattern of tragedy in Minneapolis
Jan 29, 2026
The myth of American isolationism
Jan 23, 2026
Iran's uprising: What's the endgame?
Jan 22, 2026
Do AI's risks outweigh the benefits for students and schools?
Jan 20, 2026
What did the US achieve in the Venezuela operation?
Jan 08, 2026
Gov. Andy Beshear: How health care powers rural economies
Dec 19, 2025
Behind the negotiating table to end the Russia-Ukraine war
Dec 08, 2025
Are students and workers ready for AI?
Dec 05, 2025
Inside the next Democracy Playbook: Strategies for global democratic U-turns
Dec 01, 2025
The catastrophe in Sudan
Nov 24, 2025
Chicago's Latino business community is adapting in the face of policy volatility
Nov 19, 2025
Why are expiring ACA subsidies raising health insurance premiums?
Nov 13, 2025
Can the COP30 climate conference achieve its goals?
Nov 06, 2025
Syria at a crossroads
Nov 03, 2025
APEC 2025: What's at stake?
Oct 23, 2025
Is DC's economy stalling? Insights from the DMV Monitor
Oct 16, 2025
Is this government shutdown different?
Oct 09, 2025
The United Nations at 80: Does multilateralism still matter?
Oct 03, 2025
What's the FCC's role in regulating broadcast content in an era of media consolidation?
Sep 29, 2025
Is the credibility of US government data at risk? Why it matters to everyone.
Sep 24, 2025
What's the president's legal basis for sending National Guard troops to DC streets?
Sep 04, 2025
How resilient is New Orleans today?
Aug 06, 2025
How do we know if US strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities were successful?
Jun 27, 2025
The moral dimension of AI for work and workers
Jun 05, 2025
What Medicaid and other safety net cuts could mean for US poverty
May 08, 2025
Closing the racial gap in economic and social power
Apr 15, 2025
The US government data purge is a loss for policymaking and research
Mar 21, 2025
A playbook to counter democratic backsliding in the US and abroad
Feb 13, 2025
Can the Trump administration freeze federal spending?
Jan 29, 2025
What might US rural policy look like in the Trump administration?
Dec 20, 2024
What's next for Syria and the region after Assad's fall?
Dec 09, 2024
Election 2024 and the health of American democracy
Oct 31, 2024
Government spending, debt, and taxes in the 2024 election
Oct 16, 2024
Making housing more affordable
Sep 27, 2024
As the UN General Assembly gets underway, how are we doing on the Sustainable Development Goals?
Sep 13, 2024
Competing energy and climate visions in the 2024 presidential election
Aug 19, 2024
As Joe Biden exits the presidential race, what's next for Kamala Harris?
Jul 23, 2024
The state of NATO at 75 and beyond
Jul 12, 2024
After the first presidential debate, what's next for Biden and Trump?
Jul 01, 2024
What role is AI playing in election disinformation?
Jun 26, 2024
What can be done about Sudan's deepening humanitarian catastrophe?
Jun 20, 2024
What the Trump hush money trial verdict means for politics and the rule of law
Jun 04, 2024
The dynamics of the Russia-China partnership
May 22, 2024
Cities need more housing. ADUs can help.
May 13, 2024
Do US voters care about America's role in the world?
May 03, 2024
How a divided House passed critical foreign aid bills
Apr 22, 2024
Economic impact of the Baltimore bridge collapse
Mar 28, 2024
What a strong economy can and can't fix
Mar 27, 2024
Fighting corruption's threat to democracy
Mar 14, 2024
Is Russia winning in Ukraine?
Feb 23, 2024
What to know about Pakistan's turbulent national elections
Feb 06, 2024
Meet Cecilia Rouse, new Brookings president
Jan 26, 2024
Taking stock of the ongoing war in Israel and Gaza
Dec 07, 2023
How anti-corruption efforts strengthen global democracy and security
Dec 06, 2023
Will positive momentum from the Biden-Xi meeting last?
Nov 16, 2023
The US-Mexico border challenge
Nov 09, 2023
Unpacking President Biden's executive order on artificial intelligence
Nov 03, 2023
What does a new rule on financial advice mean for retirement security?
Nov 03, 2023
Who is new Speaker of the House Mike Johnson?
Oct 26, 2023
Parsing disinformation in the Israel-Hamas conflict
Oct 25, 2023
Biden in Israel and US diplomacy on the Israel-Gaza crisis
Oct 19, 2023
War in Israel and Gaza
Oct 10, 2023
What Kevin McCarthy's ouster as Speaker of the House means for governance
Oct 04, 2023
UN reform and the Global South at the 2023 General Assembly
Sep 29, 2023
India in the world after the G-20 summit
Sep 12, 2023
What happened in the first GOP presidential debate and why it matters
Aug 24, 2023
What underlies the coup in Niger?
Aug 09, 2023
Israel's Supreme Court reform crisis
Jul 28, 2023
How will the Supreme Court's affirmative action ruling affect college admissions?
Jun 30, 2023
Putin imperiled? What to know about the Wagner Group's Russian revolt
Jun 26, 2023
What do the SEC's lawsuits signal for the future of cryptocurrency?
Jun 14, 2023
How is Congress handling the TikTok conundrum?
Apr 17, 2023
How will we remember Jimmy Carter's presidential legacy?
Mar 15, 2023
What's at stake in Turkey's elections?
Mar 10, 2023
Who is Ajay Banga, US nominee for World Bank president?
Feb 28, 2023
How is the US weighing in with Israel's new hardline government?
Feb 04, 2023
What's happening with the debt ceiling (again)?
Jan 25, 2023
60 years later, can France and Germany fulfill the ambitions of the Treaty of Élysée?
Jan 24, 2023
Moore v. Harper: Who has the power to set state election rules?
Dec 08, 2022
What does Xi Jinping's power move mean for China?
Oct 25, 2022
What's on the agenda at the UN General Assembly?
Sep 16, 2022
What's happening in Afghanistan one year after the U.S. withdrawal?
Aug 30, 2022
What will student loan forgiveness mean for Black students and families?
Aug 26, 2022
Why is Sri Lanka in crisis, and what comes next?
Jul 22, 2022
What does Shinzo Abe's assassination mean for Japan?
Jul 08, 2022
What does the Supreme Court's EPA ruling mean for climate regulation?
Jul 01, 2022
Why is Kaliningrad at the center of a new Russia-NATO faceoff?
Jun 23, 2022
What can we expect from the January 6 committee hearings?
Jun 09, 2022
How will France's changing political dynamics shape Macron's next term?
Apr 26, 2022
Where does France's presidential election stand after round one?
Apr 15, 2022
What's new in the January 6 investigation?
Mar 31, 2022
Why is Pakistani PM Imran Khan facing a no-confidence vote?
Mar 25, 2022
How is Russia conducting cyber and information warfare in Ukraine?
Mar 03, 2022
Did Biden's State of the Union speech meet the moment?
Mar 02, 2022
Russia invades Ukraine: What happens next?
Feb 25, 2022
How far will Putin go against Ukraine?
Feb 22, 2022
How is US, NATO diplomacy addressing Russian troop buildup?
Feb 10, 2022
Will Biden's call for Senate filibuster reform carve out a path for voting rights?
Jan 13, 2022
Will Russia launch a full military invasion of Ukraine?
Dec 16, 2021
What does Congress need to get done before the holidays?
Dec 03, 2021
Do COP26 pledges make enough progress on climate change?
Nov 18, 2021
Will the Facebook whistleblower's testimony spur new US digital regulation?
Oct 14, 2021
Will new Prime Minister Fumio Kishida bring change to Japan?
Oct 04, 2021
After 16 years of Angela Merkel, what's next for Germany?
Sep 17, 2021
What does back-to-school look like during COVID?
Sep 01, 2021
What did Kamala Harris' trip do for US engagement in Southeast Asia?
Aug 27, 2021
How does the Senate infrastructure bill invest in future resilience and growth?
Aug 10, 2021
The eviction ban has been extended — for now. What comes next?
Aug 05, 2021
What will US combat forces withdrawal mean for Iraq?
Jul 29, 2021
How could expanded tax credits reduce child poverty?
Jul 16, 2021
How serious are the Trump Organization tax fraud charges?
Jul 02, 2021
What did the Biden-Putin summit do for US-Russian relations?
Jun 17, 2021
What does the end of the Keystone pipeline mean for US energy?
Jun 11, 2021
An unprecedented new governing coalition has formed in Israel. What comes next?
Jun 03, 2021
Why does Congress need an independent 1/6 commission?
May 20, 2021
What hope is there for de-escalation between Israel and Hamas?
May 12, 2021
Why did US jobs growth slow in April?
May 07, 2021
How do Biden's first 100 days reflect his vision for America?
Apr 29, 2021
What does President Idriss Déby's death mean for Chad?
Apr 22, 2021
After Chauvin's conviction, will policing finally change in America?
Apr 21, 2021
Will Natanz attack, uranium enrichment derail nuclear diplomacy with Iran?
Apr 14, 2021
What does the Amazon union effort signify for labor in America?
Apr 09, 2021
What does another election deadlock mean for Israel?
Mar 24, 2021
What does Quad summit signal for U.S. engagement in the Indo-Pacific?
Mar 16, 2021
Congress extended unemployment benefits. What should come next?
Mar 12, 2021
What's in the latest COVID-19 relief bill?
Mar 09, 2021
How should the US respond to Mohammed bin Salman's role in Khashoggi killing?
Mar 01, 2021
What's the significance of Biden's first military strikes in Syria?
Feb 26, 2021
Biden is ready to resume nuclear talks with Iran. How will they respond?
Feb 19, 2021
Will pro-Navalny protests threaten Putin's power?
Feb 04, 2021
What steps is the Biden administration taking on racial equity?
Jan 28, 2021
Will Trump be removed from power after Capitol attack?
Jan 07, 2021
What does Saudi-Qatar reconciliation signal for the Biden administration?
Jan 06, 2021
Does the latest COVID relief bill do enough?
Dec 22, 2020
How did the US government get hacked?
Dec 16, 2020
How is Biden's presidential transition going?
Dec 10, 2020
What will Trump's final foreign policies mean for the Biden administration?
Dec 09, 2020
Why did Trump fire Secretary of Defense Esper?
Nov 09, 2020
What will Trump's executive order mean for the future of the civil service?
Nov 03, 2020
What trends are we seeing in early voting?
Oct 28, 2020
What's the significance of the US-Israel-Sudan normalization deal?
Oct 23, 2020
What's behind the US Justice Department's antitrust case against Google?
Oct 21, 2020
What's the state of global girls' education during COVID?
Oct 10, 2020
What does the plot against Gov. Whitmer tell us about right-wing domestic terrorism?
Oct 09, 2020
The president has COVID-19. Now what?
Oct 02, 2020
What do leaked financial documents reveal about dirty money in banking?
Sep 24, 2020
What have "maximum pressure" sanctions against Iran accomplished?
Sep 23, 2020
What prompted the UAE and Bahrain's normalization of relations with Israel?
Sep 17, 2020
Who is Yoshihide Suga, Japan's next prime minister?
Sep 15, 2020
What's driving mass protests in Belarus?
Sep 08, 2020
What does the DC Circuit ruling mean for House subpoena power?
Sep 01, 2020
What's next for Japan after Abe's resignation?
Aug 28, 2020
What does VP pick Kamala Harris bring to the Democratic ticket?
Aug 12, 2020
What's behind Trump's decision to cut U.S. troops in Germany?
Jul 31, 2020
What's in Biden's $2 trillion climate plan?
Jul 24, 2020
How is China's new national security law affecting Hong Kong?
Jul 20, 2020
What should states learn from Tuesday's primaries for the November elections?
Jun 26, 2020
Why has North Korea escalated tensions in the run-up to the Korean War anniversary?
Jun 25, 2020
How will new immigration restrictions affect the US economy?
Jun 25, 2020
What's fueling the India-China border skirmish?
Jun 18, 2020
How did a conservative Supreme Court rule for LGBTQ employment rights?
Jun 16, 2020
What's needed for police accountability after the killing of George Floyd?
May 29, 2020
How does COVID-19 unemployment compare to the Great Depression?
May 13, 2020
How is Pakistan balancing religion and politics in its response to the coronavirus?
Apr 24, 2020
What does the Gantz-Netanyahu coalition government mean for Israel?
Apr 21, 2020
Why are Black Americans more likely to die from COVID-19?
Apr 16, 2020
With Sanders out, what's next for the Democratic presidential race?
Apr 08, 2020
What's happening with Hungary's pandemic power grab?
Apr 02, 2020
How is the COVID-19 pandemic affecting global energy markets?
Mar 29, 2020
What does the coronavirus crisis mean for unemployment in America?
Mar 27, 2020
What's in the Senate's $2 trillion economic package?
Mar 25, 2020
Do Germany's border closures signal a new stage in Europe's COVID-19 response?
Mar 17, 2020
What does the coronavirus crisis mean for European unity?
Mar 13, 2020
How is Italy handling the coronavirus crisis?
Mar 12, 2020
What drove Biden's big wins on Super Tuesday?
Mar 04, 2020
What did Trump's India trip accomplish?
Feb 27, 2020
What will Pompeo's trip mean for US policy toward Africa?
Feb 20, 2020
Why is Duterte canceling the US-Philippines military cooperation agreement?
Feb 14, 2020
After Iowa and New Hampshire, what's next for the Democratic race?
Feb 13, 2020
Will House Dems' infrastructure plan yield results?
Feb 07, 2020
Is Trump's State of the Union a roadmap for 2020?
Feb 05, 2020
Brexit Day is here. What happens next?
Jan 30, 2020
What does Trump's Middle East plan mean for Israel and Palestine?
Jan 29, 2020
What does Putin's government shakeup mean for his role in Russia?
Jan 17, 2020
Will the new US-China trade deal end the trade war?
Jan 16, 2020
What does Taiwan's presidential election mean for relations with China?
Jan 13, 2020
How will Iran respond to US assassination of Soleimani?
Jan 03, 2020
The president has been impeached. Now what?
Dec 19, 2019
What happened at the UN climate change summit?
Dec 16, 2019
What does Boris Johnson's victory mean for the UK and Brexit?
Dec 13, 2019
What is the US doing on climate change?
Dec 02, 2019
What does Netanyahu's indictment mean for Israel?
Nov 22, 2019
What does the Gannett-GateHouse merger mean for local journalism?
Nov 20, 2019
What did the Trump-Erdoğan meeting accomplish?
Nov 14, 2019
What did ASEAN meetings reveal about US engagement in Southeast Asia?
Nov 05, 2019
What's next after the impeachment process vote?
Nov 01, 2019
How can Chile resolve public frustration and mass protests?
Oct 31, 2019
What does the GM auto workers' strike tell us about the strength of unions?
Oct 25, 2019
What's spurring the mass protests in Lebanon?
Oct 23, 2019
What's the latest on Brexit?
Oct 22, 2019
What's driving anti-government protests in Iraq?
Oct 07, 2019
What are the politics of impeachment?
Oct 02, 2019
Why is the Trump-Ukraine whistleblower complaint so important?
Sep 24, 2019
Is Netanyahu out as Israel's prime minister?
Sep 18, 2019
What does suspension of UK's Parliament mean for Brexit?
Aug 28, 2019
What do the Amazon fires mean for Brazil's economic future?
Aug 27, 2019
Why does President Trump think the US can buy Greenland?
Aug 22, 2019
After the prime minister's resignation, what's next for Italy?
Aug 20, 2019
Is China really manipulating its currency?
Aug 08, 2019
Will the INF Treaty's demise kick-start a new arms race?
Aug 02, 2019
What did the Pakistani prime minister's visit with Trump achieve?
Jul 23, 2019
What does a new UN report reveal about global hunger and obesity?
Jul 18, 2019
With Acosta's resignation, how is high turnover affecting the administration?
Jul 12, 2019
What does the debate over school segregation reveal about the Democratic primary field?
Jul 05, 2019
How will Christine Lagarde lead the European Central Bank?
Jul 04, 2019
Will protests in Hong Kong continue?
Jul 03, 2019
What does the Supreme Court decision on citizenship status mean for the 2020 census?
Jun 27, 2019
Will the Bahrain workshop lead to progress on Middle East peace?
Jun 25, 2019
What does Mohammed Morsi's death mean for Egypt?
Jun 18, 2019
What's on the agenda for Italian Deputy PM Salvini's US visit?
Jun 14, 2019
Will new documents sway the Supreme Court on Census citizenship question?
Jun 03, 2019
How will the Continental Free Trade Area transform Africa?
May 31, 2019
What do the European Parliament election results tell us about EU politics?
May 28, 2019
What does PM Modi's landslide win mean for India?
May 24, 2019
Is the US on a collision course with Iran?
May 15, 2019
Is breaking up Facebook the best option?
May 10, 2019
Why is the Trump administration pushing to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorists?
May 01, 2019
Can the administration and Congress move forward on $2 trillion infrastructure plan?
Apr 30, 2019
After the Mueller report, will President Trump be impeached?
Apr 19, 2019
Introducing The Current
Apr 18, 2019
The Trump administration's new challenge to the Affordable Care Act
Mar 27, 2019
Why did Democrats choose Milwaukee for 2020 DNC convention?
Mar 14, 2019
Is Trump's 2020 defense budget excessive?
Mar 12, 2019
Lessons from the second Trump-Kim summit
Mar 04, 2019
Netanyahu to be indicted for bribery. What's next?
Mar 01, 2019
Is Nigeria's presidential election result valid?
Feb 28, 2019
Can Congress stop Trump's national emergency declaration?
Feb 27, 2019
Is the Green New Deal biting off too much?
Feb 08, 2019
Who is David Malpass, Trump's nominee for World Bank President?
Feb 06, 2019
What the demise of the INF treaty means
Feb 04, 2019
Why Trump ended the shutdown – for now
Jan 25, 2019
Can Venezuela's new president restore democracy?
Jan 24, 2019
An update on trans-Atlantic relations
Jan 18, 2019
A federal judge ruled against the census citizenship question. What's next?
Jan 16, 2019
Can Trump declare a national emergency to build a border wall?
Jan 07, 2019
Will Trump and Congress shut down the government?
Dec 21, 2018
President Trump's mad dash out of Syria
Dec 20, 2018
Why the Senate went against Trump on Yemen
Nov 29, 2018
How will political strife in Israel impact Trump's 'Deal of the Century'?
Nov 19, 2018
Trump-Macron spat exposes clashing US-French interests
Nov 14, 2018
The facts about the 'migrant caravan'
Nov 02, 2018
Unpacking Trump's threat to terminate birthright citizenship
Oct 30, 2018
The consequences of US withdrawal from the INF treaty
Oct 23, 2018
How North Dakota is keeping Native Americans from voting in the midterms
Oct 19, 2018
How is the latest Ebola outbreak in the DRC different than the others?
Oct 18, 2018
Will the Khashoggi crisis create an oil war?
Oct 17, 2018
The Supreme Court will decide if a citizenship question on the US census is legal
Oct 10, 2018
The lasting impact of Kavanaugh's Supreme Court confirmation
Oct 10, 2018
After Nikki Haley, what's next for the UN?
Oct 10, 2018
Did the jobs report show good news?
Oct 08, 2018
Is the U.S. walking away from the World Court over Iran?
Oct 05, 2018
Did Trump avoid paying taxes? Voters won't like it.
Oct 04, 2018
Could Melania Trump's visit to Africa repair US-Africa relations?
Oct 04, 2018
Will Kavanaugh be confirmed? It's up to these five senators and the FBI
Sep 28, 2018
In UN speech, Trump's 'America First' hurts global human rights
Sep 26, 2018
The U.S.-China trade war won't be ending soon
Sep 21, 2018
What's next for the Kavanaugh hearings?
Sep 20, 2018
Trump cuts refugee admissions to a historic low
Sep 18, 2018
Have US counterterrorism efforts improved since 9/11?
Sep 10, 2018
Why Trump won't be removed by the 25th Amendment
Sep 07, 2018
Senate Democrats' strategy on Kavanaugh
Sep 05, 2018
The US and Mexico make NAFTA progress, but where's Canada?
Aug 27, 2018
Arming teachers won't improve school safety
Aug 24, 2018
Trump tries to cut foreign aid without Congress
Aug 23, 2018
New tariffs escalate the US-China trade war
Aug 23, 2018
The legal threat Michael Cohen poses for President Trump
Aug 22, 2018
How the Manafort and Cohen news could impact the midterm elections
Aug 22, 2018
Is it unconstitutional for Trump to revoke John Brennan's security clearance?
Aug 17, 2018
Does the Ohio special election signal a blue wave in the midterms?
Aug 08, 2018
Will the Senate's "minibus" strategy prevent a government shutdown?
Aug 07, 2018
Trump fuel-economy standards roll back environmental reforms
Aug 03, 2018
Tensions with Turkey escalate in wake of US sanctions
Aug 02, 2018