The critical roles of federal workers, withdrawing from Afghanistan, reinventing public policy graduate school, and more.

Published: Jan. 18, 2019, 5 p.m.

b"We discuss the essential jobs that government workers perform; the likely effects of a precipitous U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan; whether educators set goals for social-emotional learning; how Middle East communities can resist sectarianism; and the transformation of a public policy graduate program. For more information on this week's episode, visit rand.org/podcast."