Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Think Tank Quickies (#124)

  • Fun with Dick Cheney & Lynne Cheney at AEI.
  • Think tank thinks thinking tanks policy needs rethink.
  • Wilson Quarterly relaunches on digital platform.
  • Think tank boom in Tunisia.
  • Wilson Center holds event on why crack-smoking Rob Ford is still mayor of Toronto.
  • What do corporations get for donations to think tanks?
  • Nearly "unbridgeable gap" between research assistants and senior fellow at think tanks; few middle-level research positions in Washington think tanks; leading to lack of foreign affairs expertise.
  • CFR's Nigeria Security Tracker - mapping violence in Nigeria.
  • Brookings cafeteria "awesome?"
  • Major liberal think tank (CAP) wants Obamacare management shakeup.