Think Tank Quickies (#204)
- Spiritual leader Marc Gafni: "Thank God I run my own think tank, otherwise I'd never get a job."
- Think tanker Peter Singer wants this obituary: "A wonk's wonk...A wonk so wonky he once conducted a study of think tanks themselves."
- Meet the 300+ corporations sponsoring the 7 think tanks dominating the TTIP trade debate.
- Too many think tanks are just "kool-aid fueled group think."
- How Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) is turning the House into an election year think tank.
- Bruegel to host panel discussion on why think tanks matter during launch of UPenn's 2015 think tank index.
- Heritage Foundation welcomes Beverly Hallberg, President of District Media Group, as Visiting Fellow in Communications.
- CFR brings on new scholars for its David Rockefeller Studies Program: Reuben Brigety, Robert Litan, and Matthew Taylor; economist Brad Setser returns to CFR.
- Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" wins 2015 CFR Arthur Ross Book Award.
- CFR web hub ("The Candidates and the World") offers resources on 2016 presidential candidates' views on foreign policy.
- Victoria Ransom and David Burke join Carnegie Endowment Board.
- Leaders of Center for a New American Security (CNAS), US Institute of Peace (USIP), and Carnegie Endowment (CEIP), launch Study Group on Fragility.
