Think Tank Quickies (#515)
- Former Project 2025 chief Paul Dans has first major interview of Trump's presidency.
- EPA moves forward with Project 2025.
- Trump, who said Biden's 11th-hour pardons were void because Biden signed them with an autopen, were made following similar arguments from the Heritage Foundation.
- Demonstrators protest Project 2025 outside Heritage Foundation.
- Well-connected think tank Third Way will launch an 18-month Signal Project, including polling, to identify Trump Administration actions "that are most relevant to key voters and how best to frame those issues."
- Heritage Foundation prepared report calling for ending US aid to Israel.
- Biden's former national security adviser, Jake Sullivan, is taking up two new university roles. He will be Harvard Kennedy School's inaugural Kissinger professor of the practice of statecraft and world order. He'll also be a faculty affiliate of Harvard's Belfer Center. He's also taking up a role at the University of New Hampshire as a senior fellow at the Carsey School of Public Policy and the Franklin Pierce School of Law.
- FAS: Chinese Nuclear Weapons - 2025.
- Foundation for Research on Equal Opportunity: "A think tank that promotes free markets."
- After Jan. 6, 2021, Elbridge Colby published fewer of the deeply researched think tank papers that had defined his career in favor of harder-edged social media posts.
