Thursday, February 20, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#508)

  • Tom Jones' Heritage Foundation-funded DHS Bureaucrat Watch List names 51 federal policy experts and high-ranking leaders to fire.
  • Some 80% of Hill "experts" take money from arms makers, foreign interests. 
  • CSIS analysts gamed out a "climate club."  The outcomes weren't great.
  • With an "epic name," this conservative think tank (Economic Policy Innovation Center) sees opening.
  • One person's think tank is another's propaganda organ.
  • FT: "Inside the radical Trump-backing group behind Project 2025."
  • Jeff Bezos's Amazon donates to Tony Blair's influential think tank.
  • Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCFA) changes name and mission.
  • Telegram channel Rybar, a popular military blog tracking the war in Ukraine, has been defined as a think tank "defending the nation's information borders."
  • Heritage is back