Think Tank Quickies (#350)

• New USIP report on extremism in fragile states says war on terror has cost US $5.9 trillion.
• Trump pulls plug on Fed pic Stephen Moore, a habitué of conservative think tanks.
• Silicon Valley-funded privacy think tanks fight in DC to unravel state-level consumer privacy protections. 
• Russian think tanks and foreign policy-making.
• 2019 ranking of free-market think tanks measured by social media impact.
• Conservative think tank Hamilton Flourishing launched to help nudge Chattanooga area public policy toward right.
• Bernie Sanders video: "Check out who funds the think tanks." 
• Max Blumenthal: US military attack on Venezuela mulled by top Trump advisors and Latin American officials at private meeting at think tank CSIS (attendees list included).
• The history of women at think tank Chatham House.
• NYU event: Working at NGOs and think tanks. 
• Conservative think tanks urge Republicans to oppose Sen. Lamar Alexander's "New Manhattan Project."