Think Tank Quickies (#191)
- China's rise alarming US think tanks.
- Search think funding around the world (including US) at Foundation Maps, via Foundation Center.
- Prominent healthcare economist Deborah Freund joins RAND.
- Spencer Ackerman: "Just once I want a DC think tank report to say plainly, 'This research is not designed to be true. It is designed to be useful.'"
- Indian think tanks in the military field.
- Brookings: Is al-Bahgdadi the new bin Laden?
- Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) does libertarian Cato on Sept. 16.
- State Dept. and White House interact regularly with think tanks; intel community not so much.
- "Higher education providers" like think tanks are booming.
- Partisan think tanks/researchers prone to produce results that confirm their own political leanings.
