Wednesday, August 7, 2024

Think Tank Quickies (#501)

  • Trump 2024 vs. Project 2025, via NY Mag.
  • Heritage Foundation signs on as RNC convention sponsor.
  • 4 think tanks influencing Trump's energy agenda (Heritage Foundation, CEI, IER, and TPPF). 
  • Heritage Foundation recommends punishing China for Covid.
  • New England Complex Systems Institute (NECSI): "A think tank dedicated to the study of complex systems."
  • Flashback: Inside a Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank.
  • Heritage Foundation President Kevin Roberts said that the rising right wing is "in the process of the second American Resolution, which will remain bloodless if the left allows it to be."
  • Mark Meadows' Conservative Partnership Institute was accused of improperly paying his legal bills.
  • Boutique investment bank Centerview recently hired Richard Haass, former head of CFR, as a senior counselor. 
  • The US Air Force recently asked the RAND Corporation to assess whether AI tools could provide options to a "space warfighter" dealing with an incoming threat to a satellite.