Friday, August 8, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#522)

  • Ed Feulner, founder, trustee, and longest serving president of the Heritage Foundation, has died.
  • China urges think tanks to halt stablecoin promotion amid fraud concerns. 
  • The roles of Chinese think tanks in AI governance.
  • Dialog - a secretive, invite-only network founded two decades ago by Peter Thiel and Auren Hoffam - is preparing a major expansion, including a real estate purchase to build a campus in the DC suburbs. 
  • DAWN: "A Washington-based think tank that focuses on American policy in the Middle East."
  • Why this early Google investor is funding think tanks in the US and India. 
  • Heritage Foundation is creating a "Defense Advisory Panel" of 13 retired General and Flag Officers to counsel its Allison Center for National Security.
  • Mark Meadown, from his perch at the Conservative Partnership Institute, helped craft the OBBBA.
  • Tiffany Justice, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, is joining Heritage Action. 
  • The Institute for Global Affairs at the Eurasia Group (IGA) named Kerry and Obama campaign veteran Mark Hannah as new CEO.