Think Tank Quickies (#297)
- Do think tank experts who do forecasting get it wrong all the time?
- Gar Alperovitz: Centrist think tanks won't save our cities.
- Trump nominates Kathleen Hartnett, formerly at conservative think tank Texas Public Policy Foundation, for top environmental post.
- Rep. Will Hurd (R-TX), Lisa Monaco, and IBM President/CEO Ginni Rometty to chair Aspen Institute's Cyber Strategy Group.
- National Law Review: Think tanks often look to FARA's "academic exemption" to avoid registration.
- Think tanker Shawn Brimley passes away.
- Corry Bliss's super PAC's partner, a "nonprofit think tank" that he also runs, the American Action Network, provided $30 million in TV ads to push the GOP tax cuts.
- Stockholm-based "fact tank" Gapminder has a mission to show how economics, not geography, dictates lifestyle.
- Full-page ad from R Street Institute in Wall Street Journal.
- Inside the offices of Jigsaw, an elite think tank created by Google where employees sample food from around the world and take naps in rooms named Narnia and Mordor.
