Think Tank Quickies (#458)
- Daniel Bunn will be the next president and CEO of the Tax Foundation.
- Jon Huntsman has joined CNAS's board of directors. He was previously the Atlantic Council's board chair.
- Politico: Spotted on an American Airlines flight from Palm Beach to DC: Heritage Foundation president Kevin Roberts in first class; Manhattan Institute president Reihan Salam in coach.
- Quincy Institute event: Foreign funding and public trust in the think tank sector (and a summary).
- Only 15% of people trust think tanks? (Most don't even know what a think tank is...)
- Warning: Someone is impersonating think tanker Michael McFaul.
- New book Spies and Lies details how covert influence operations by China reach into US think tanks and elsewhere.
- Todd Moss: "Think Tank" is the name of the orangutan house at the National Zoo.
- Shit Nonprofits Say on how think tanks decide to take donor money.
- Pic: Scary costume for the DC think tanker.
