Think Tank Quickies (#333)

• Former DNI Avril Haines will be the next president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.  She was formerly affiliated with the Brookings Institution.
• Hudson Institute Executive Vice President Joel Scanlon will become the think tank's new President and CEO, replacing John Walters. 
• Angel Cabrera has been named as the next president and CEO of the Aspen Institute.  He is currently president of the Georgia Institute of Technology. 
• Mr. Aaron Lukas, who worked as an analyst at the Cato Institute, was initially named to serve as the acting director of national intelligence after Tulsi Gabbard stepped down. 
• The Truman National Security Project is facing deepening staffing and financial woes.
• Persuaded that his loneliness was symptomatic of a national malady, David Brooks started a nonprofit through the Aspen Institute, called "Weave: The Social Fabric Project," which aims to strengthen community in towns and cities nationwide.
• Helen Toner is now the permanent executive director of Georgetown's Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET).  She was previously the interim director. 
• Can Mike Pence's think tank lead Reaganites out of the wilderness? 
• How Florida's taxpayers are funding a largely conservative think tank for Latin America. 
• 12 influential Israeli think tanks. 
• Should there be temporary think tanks?