Think Tank Quickies (#516)
- The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace canceled a conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at their nuclear policy conference, and both sides blamed each other.
- Former Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has returned to Brookings as a Distinguished Fellow.
- Jeremy Symons, most recently a principal at Symons Public Affairs, launched a nonpartisan think tank, the Center for Energy & Environmental Analysis.
- Pro-Trump think tank AFPI is launching a "farmer first" policy agenda led by ag insiders who boast ties to Trump and Capitol Hill.
- Julie Margetta Morgan has been named the next president of The Century Foundation.
- The Trump Administration's push to cast pro-Palestinian protesters as Hamas supporters - and then use anti-terror and immigration laws to quiet campus demonstrations - was forecast in a little-known plan last year from the creators of Project 2025. It was called "Project Esther."
- The Heritage Foundation, which has called for ending the Department of Education for decades, had three of its education policy experts present for President Trump's executive order signing to begin winding down the DOE.
- A Heritage Foundation-linked group, the Oversight Project, is seeking free legal help from major law firms to support conservative causes, suggesting they provide pro-bono work worth $10 million to avoid scrutiny from the White House.
- CSIS on Russia's shadow war against the West.
- Did Georgetown University researcher Badar Khan Suri have ties to the United Association for Studies and Research, a Hamas-affiliated think tank that operated in the US from 1989 to 2004?
