Think Tank Quickies (#249)
- Trump NSC pick Monica Crowley plagiarized from think tanks (Update: she has now quit).
- Bruegel event on Jan. 26: Why are think tanks more important now than ever before?
- Economist: What do think tanks do?
- Jennifer Rubin on the challenges for think tanks in 2017.
- Washington Post calls white nationalist group National Policy Institute a "think tank."
- What role for a European think tank in the age of populism?
- Will think tankers be put on something similar to the "Professor Watchlist" created by conservative youth group Turning Point USA?
- Center for American Progress (CAP) casts doubts on Trump infrastructure plan.
- Jacob Leibenluft joined CBPP as a senior adviser for national policy; he most recently led Hillary Clinton's economic policy team during the 2016 campaign and served in the Treasury and White House under President Obama.
- Former Brookings and Urban Institute alum Carey Anne Nadeau featured in Washington Post for her company Open Data Nation.
