Think Tank Quickies (#266)
- Former AEI President Christopher DeMuth (now a Distinguished Fellow at Hudson Institute) in defense of think tanks.
- CIA Director Mike Pompeo speaks at CSIS.
- In 2016 Steve Bannon made $500,000+ from companies and think tanks linked to Republican donor Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah.
- Waterloo (Canada) think tanks pay the most for top scholars.
- Hillary's billionaire friend (Haim Saban) a lover of think tanks.
- Smith Richardson Foundation's annual Strategy and Policy Fellows grant helps support the think tank community by supporting a rising generation of policy thinkers.
- Education Secretary Betsy DeVos does Brookings.
- Think tanker (Alison Percich of WINEP) goes on Washington Post's Date Lab and scores.
- Scholarly sting operation shines spotlight on "predatory" scientific journals; is bad science plaguing think tank research?
- Third Way adding a dozen Democratic lawmakers as honorary co-chairs.
