Think Tank Quickies (#334)

• Washington Reporter: Yale Budget Lab bills itself as "nonpartisan," but its founders worked in the Biden Administration, and its staff and board members have donated almost exclusively to Democratic candidates and causes.
• Leak exposes members of Peter Thiel's secretive "Dialog" society. 
• JPMorgan Chase's Center for Geopolitics, run by Derek Chollet, is doubling down on geopolitical analysis, and the bank has distilled its first year of analysis into a 100-page book, "Brink." 
• Michael Pillsbury, a senior adviser to the president's office at the Heritage Foundation, has been named as senior adviser at American Global Strategies. 
• ProPublica: BP sponsored an elite Princeton research center to address the climate problem without getting off fossil fuels, handpicking scientists aligned with their interests. 
• The think tank fueling Trump's war on higher ed. 
• Orban's favorite Brussels think tank eyes new funding after Hungary orders parent organization to close. 
• Man suspected of assaulting Japanese CEO of Taipei think tank arrested. 
• Think tanks have World Cup fever. 
• Center for Research of Terror Financing (CENTEF), a US-based think tank dedicated to advancing the understanding of terror financing and its impact worldwide.