Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Think Tank Quickies (#154)

  • Court case pushed by Cato could leave uninsured out in the cold?
  • South Asian think tank summit begins.
  • Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) has built his own mini-think tank of policy experts. 
  • AEI has redesigned its website; Michael Strain named Deputy Director of Economic Policy Studies; Thomas Stossel, MD joins AEI as Visiting Scholar for health care policy.
  • Flashback: Historicizing the conservative think tank.
  • CNAS largely funded by defense contractors.
  • How to think about "think" tanks by Miles Corak.
  • CFR launches online education hub for teaching and learning about foreign policy.
  • Jan Sokolovsky asks: Do major think tanks violate US law? 
  • RAND Corp. announces collaboration with Lawrence Livermore National Lab on high-performance computing and decisionmaking; James Dobbins and Katherine Kahn receive Distinguished Chairs at RAND.