Think Tank Quickies (#518)

• US Institute of Peace staff received termination notices.  But now judge says Trump lacked authority to dismantle USIP.
• Project Esther: Inside the Heritage Foundations' plan to crush the pro-Palestinian cause.
  
• Jared Bernstein, previously the chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA), is now a senior fellow for economic policy at CAP.
• Trump Administration quietly holding discussions and consulting outside experts, including those in think tank land, as it considers options for potentially restarting dialogue with North Korea.
• The Library of Congress' Kluge Center "invites into residence top thinkers from around the world to distill wisdom from the rich resources of the Library and to foster mutually enriching relationships with lawmakers and other policy leaders."
• Stephanie Sutton is joining the Center for American Progress as COO.
• CNAS named Kurt Campbell and Anne Neuberger to its board of directors.
  
• European think tanks launch interactive tool on China-Russia trade relations.
• The not-so-secret society (Ben Franklin Fellowship) whose members run the State Department.
  
• The think tanks who do most of the talking for Britain's Labour party.