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This special edition of Reimagine Rural features Tony Pipa interviewing Bill Bynum, CEO of Hope Enterprise Corporation and Hope Credit Union, and Charlie Cotherman, executive director of the Center for Rural Ministry at Grove City College and pastor at the Oil City Vineyard Church. Both guests are members of America’s Rural Future: The Brookings-AEI Commission on Rural Prosperity. Bynum and Cotherman offer insights from the Commission’s March 2026 visit to the Mississippi Delta and share lessons learned from visits to multiple rural Delta towns.

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America's Rural Future: Brookings–AEI Commission on U.S. Rural Prosperity brings together voices from across rural America to surface pragmatic, long-term solutions for economic opportunity and community wellbeing. Co-chaired by former Senator Heidi Heitkamp and former Governor Chris Sununu, the Commission is a bipartisan effort to understand what's working in rural communities—and where policy can help unlock greater prosperity.

This highlight video captures moments from the Commission's recent site visits in the Mississippi Delta. Over three days, Commission members met with residents, business owners, educators, students, health providers, faith leaders, public officials, and community development leaders to examine how access to capital, community institutions, and public investment shape economic, health, and educational outcomes across the Delta.

Nearly one in five Americans lives in a rural community. Their contributions are vital to the nation's economic, cultural, and social fabric. Through public hearings, site visits, and expert panels, the Commission is working to ensure every community—no matter the zip code—has a fair shot at long-term success.

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Tony Pipa, Senior Fellow, Brookings

Brent Orrell, Senior Fellow, AEI

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In early March, Beijing released its fifteenth Five-Year Plan, detailing the Party leadership’s economic and technological ambitions for the years ahead. Jon Czin sits down with China Center colleague Kyle Chan and Andrew Polk of Trivium China to discuss Beijing's push to move up the value chain — from low-end manufacturing toward high-tech industries like AI, robotics, and semiconductors.

The two experts offer their analysis of what the plan reveals about where China’s leaders want its economy to go, how it plans to get there, and how Western countries are reacting to its increasing economic global influence.

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The U.S. and Iran have finally moved from the front lines to the negotiating table in Islamabad. And these few days will determine if Washington can walk away from this war with a good enough of a deal.

In this video, Brookings fellow Aslı Aydıntaşbaş breaks down the biggest challenges President Trump will face in the negotiations over the Iran war.

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The U.S. and Iran have finally moved from the front lines to the negotiating table in Islamabad. And these few days will determine if Washington can walk away from this war with a good enough of a deal.

In this video, Brookings fellow Aslı Aydıntaşbaş breaks down the biggest challenges President Trump will face in the negotiations over the Iran war.

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Join the Brookings Institution’s AI and Emerging Technology Initiative and Stanford’s Institute for Human Centered AI (HAI) for a conversation on the 2026 edition of HAI’s AI Index and what it reveals about the state of AI development, adoption, and impact. The event will feature a presentation by the report’s lead author, followed by a conversation on workforce and economic data featuring Sharat Raghavan, the director of LinkedIn’s Economic Graph Research Institute, Brookings Senior Fellow David Wessel, and AI Index Co-Chair Ray Perrault. A closing panel of experts will dive deeper into emerging trends in critical policy domains, identify gaps and barriers in data reliability, and explore what researchers, policymakers, and companies can do to build a stronger empirical foundation for AI governance.

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The Iran war is already affecting developing economies in Asia, and soon the effects will spread. At the 2026 Spring Meetings of the IMF and World Bank, we sat down with Indermit Gill, who explained how the conflict in the Middle East will affect food prices and interest rates in Africa and around the world.

Gill is a nonresident senior fellow at Brookings and chief economist at the World Bank Group.

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In early March, Beijing released its fifteenth Five-Year Plan, detailing the Party leadership’s economic and technological ambitions for the years ahead. Jon Czin sits down with China Center colleague Kyle Chan and Andrew Polk of Trivium China to discuss Beijing's push to move up the value chain — from low-end manufacturing toward high-tech industries like AI, robotics, and semiconductors.

The two experts offer their analysis of what the plan reveals about where China’s leaders want its economy to go, how it plans to get there, and how Western countries are reacting to its increasing economic global influence.

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Is it time for Europe to develop an independent nuclear deterrent? Constanze Stelzenmüller, director of the Center on the United States and Europe at Brookings, poses this critical question to Finnish President Alexander Stubb. Stubb breaks down the new era of global nuclear proliferation and explains why Finland is officially updating its 1980s-era nuclear energy laws to fully integrate into NATO's strategic planning.

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