Think Tank Quickies (#253)
- Heritage Foundation's Daily Signal has access to White House press briefings AND gets called on.
- Cato Institute issues 8th edition of its bible: Cato Handbook for Policymakers (Reps. Justin Amash and Jim Jordan came to the launch party).
- Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass has new book: "A World in Disarray."
- Common Good, a "think tank favoring looser federal regulation."
- Did you know that the Hudson Institute has a Kleptocracy Initiative?
- Climate change conference that CDC canceled before President Trump inauguration is now on and will be held at Carter Center.
- RAND Corp. study: Sleeplessness cost the economy $411 billion a year in lost productivity.
- US dropped 26,171 bombs in 2016, according to an analysis by the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR); 2015 analysis can be found here.
- Transparify: Secret funding for UK think tanks.
- Think tanks as a supplement to policymaking, via China Daily.
