On Trump's Phoenix speech and the border wall
Aug 24, 2017
Vanda Felbab-Brown, senior fellow in the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence in the Foreign Policy program, discusses Trump's campaign rally speech in Phoenix, where he threatened to shut down the government if Congress does not approve funding his proposed border wall between the U.S. and Mexico, which...
On Trump's response to Charlottesville
Aug 18, 2017
John Hudak, senior fellow and deputy director of the Center for Effective Public Management at Brookings, says President Trump "choked" in his public comments on the violence in Charlottesville. Hudak adds that if the president pardons former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, as has been rumored, he will "be complicit...
On Charlottesville, racism, and President Trump’s comments
Aug 16, 2017
Camille Busette, senior fellow and director of the Race, Prosperity, and Inclusion Initiative at the Brookings Institution, says that the recent violence at the hands of neo-Nazis and white supremacists in Charlottesville, Virginia has "forced us to confront this ugly history" of racism in America. She calls it...
On US-China relations as tensions flare with North Korea
Aug 15, 2017
Ryan Hass, a fellow in the John L. Thornton China Center and the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at Brookings, discusses two important announcements that may be lost in the focus on the U.S.-North Korea standoff: China's announcement that it will ban North Korea's top export items; and the Trump administration's...
On threats from North Korea
Aug 10, 2017
Richard Bush, co-director at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and a senior fellow with the John L. Thornton China Center in Foreign Policy, addresses President Trump's response to developments surrounding advancements in the North Korean nuclear program and offers recommendations on effective crisis management...