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? 

40 Experts Secretly Meet at PIIE to Game Out How to Avoid an AI Apocalypse

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:

Inside a glass-encased building in downtown Washington, D.C., this past week, a group of experts hunkered down to strategize how to avoid the AI apocalypse that many doomsayers predict.

They were some 40 leading thinkers in economics, technology and public policy, and they had come to the Peterson Institute for International Economics to contemplate a vision of U.S. society in 2030. Provided with workbooks, easel pads and Sharpies, they arrived ready to game out responses to some of AI’s biggest risks—to jobs, the economy, political stability.

The event was arranged by Windfall Trust, a nonprofit devoted to heading off AI’s economic disruption by developing potential policy responses. It has been running scenario-planning exercises like this in cities around the world to catalyze proactive strategies for confronting an AI-driven future. 

 

Over the years, think tanks have run numerous "war games" and crisis simulations on a variety of topics and scenarios.  A number of think tanks even have programs dedicated to the topic, such as the Hoover Institution, which has a Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative.

China Arrests American Think Tank Chief

Here is more from CBS:

China has arrested an American citizen for alleged espionage, the country's government confirmed Friday, identifying the man as a political analyst for a policy think tank focused on neighboring Myanmar.

U Min Zin, a founder of the Institute for Strategy and Policy Myanmar, or ISP-M, has faced "criminal compulsory measures," Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Lin Jian said during a briefing on Friday.

Authorities are holding him on suspicion "of engaging in espionage and endangering China's national security," Lin said, without providing further details.

The ISP-M says it researches political, resource and conflict dynamics in Myanmar, which was plunged into civil war by a 2021 military coup. 

 

U Min Zin was arrested on June 3 at Kunming Airport in the Yunnan province of China.  ISP-M is based in the Northern Thai city of Chang Mai.

Think Tank Quickies (#332)

• Brookings launches institution-wide effort to generate recommendations for sharpening America's edge in competition with China. 
• RAND Corp. report: On the Extinction Risk of Artificial Intelligence. 
• Mike Needham, former CEO of Heritage Action for America, has been promoted to White House deputy national security adviser.  Dan Holler, Sec. Marco Rubio's chief of staff at the State Department, will take Needham's job as counselor and serve as acting director of policy planning. 
• Senior Democrats are rebooting an influential foreign policy group (National Security Action) to help potential 2028 presidential candidates and bring together national security specialists who could staff the next Democratic administration.  Maher Bitar will lead NSA, which was founded in 2018.
• The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is discouraging its employees from online betting platforms.  "I strongly recommend that colleagues eschew participation in prediction markets, especially on matters of politics, world affairs, and other topics on which Carnegie provides expertise," Carnegie Senior Vice President Daniel Baer wrote in an April 2026 email to staff.
• The Inclusive Abundance Initiative is among several groups that is part of the growing center-left "Abundance" movement assembling a 2028 policy agenda targeting regulations it believes hurt Democrats' efforts on healthcare, housing, energy, and more. 
• A number of potential Democratic presidential candidates got to test-drive their policy prescriptions for the party at the Center for American Progress' 2026 Ideas Conference on May 19.  California Gov. Gavin Newsom, Maryland Gov. Wes Moore, and Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) are among the headliners that CAP is brought back after a 3-year hiatus. 
• James Baker, the former head of DoD's Office of Net Assessment, often referred to as the "Pentagon's Think Tank," is joining AI company Anthropic as a strategist-in-residence. 
• Think tanks have defeated democracy. 
• Global Catastrophic Risk Institute (GCRI): "A nonpartisan think tank that analyzes the risk of events that could significantly harm or even destroy human civilization at the global scale."

Five Eyes Warns of China Threat to Think Tankers

Members of the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned in a bulletin that China's military intelligence services are using Western online job platforms - including LinkedIn, Indeed, and Upwork - to lure Five Eyes nationals with access to sensitive information.

"These actors use an aggressive online recruitment strategy whereby intelligence officers or their affiliates pose as employees of private consultancies, think tanks, or human resources (HR) firms, and place online job advertisements for foreign policy and defense analysts (or similar)," the group said. 

Those being targeted include "persons with either indirect or peripheral access to government information, e.g. academics, journalists, freelance writers, think tank employees, or anyone with links to defense, security, policy, and economic sectors," it added. 

The Five Eyes countries consist of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom, and the United States. 

Think Tank Quickies (#331)

• President Trump says the Cato Institute hates him.
• Donald J. Trump vs. the think tanks. 
• Inside the hidden world of think tanks. 
• RAND re-ups at Pentagon City tower with big plans to expand grad school. 
• Robert O'Brien and Ely Ratner are the inaugural co-chairs of the new US Taiwan Task Force.  The initiative, launched under the DC-based Global Taiwan Institute think tank, will undertake a "comprehensive review of US-Taiwan-relations and provide actionable recommendations for decision-makers in both Washington and Taipei," according to the institute. 
• Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-OH) asks Senate witnesses to swear their think tanks don't take Mexican drug cartel money.
• Paul Dans, an architect of the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, recently pulled out of the South Caroline Senate race against Lindsey Graham. 
• Viktor Orban's beloved conservative think tank, MCC Brussels, faces a fight for its life. 
• Is this the end of the golden age of Chinese think tanks with star ex-officials? 
• Egypt's Rania Al-Mashat plans to launch a coalition of regional think tanks. 

Can RAND's New Model Predict Iran Outcome?

Here is more from The Economist:

 "As an uneasy truce holds between America and Iran, experts are struggling to predict what new phase the conflict may enter next.  Might an artificial intelligence model know any better?  To find out, The Economist asked RAND, a think tank, to see if its new AI forecasting system thought a popular uprising was in the offing in Iran.  Integrated Strategic Forecasting (ISF), as the system if known, put the chance of regime collapse or replacement by the end of 2026 at 20% - higher than many experts would hazard.

There are caveats.  The forecast was produced without classified intelligence.  Its inputs and outputs were also no vetted by humans, as is customary for forecasts commissioned by government agencies, notes Anthony Vassalo, RAND's head of prediction technology and a former senior official in America's Office of the Director of National Intelligence.  Even so, Mr. Vassalo is bullish.  He describes ISF, which was completed in February, as "the better crystal ball" policymakers have long sought.

 

Here is more about RAND's Forecasting Initiative (RFI), and here is one of their latest papers entitled "Aligning Forecasting Methods to Support Intelligence Community Analytic Tradecraft."

Coolest Think Tank Job in the World

The Cato Institute is now advertising for the coolest think tank job in the world.  The catch?  It doesn't exist yet.  Yes, you get to create your own think tank job.

Here is more from the Washington, DC-based think tank:

The newly launched Cato Innovation Project asks applicants to propose the job they want us to create for them, rather than seeking to fill predefined positions. This inverts the usual hiring process. The Project will select 2–3 applicants on a rolling basis for full-time positions at a minimum salary of $100,000 and full benefits to work for at least 2 years on their projects at Cato. The positions have the potential to become permanent. 

We evaluate the pitch, not just the résumé. The Cato Innovation Project is open to a deliberately wide range of applicants with different skills and interests. Aspiring policy researchers can propose covering new issue areas or established ones in different ways. Technologists and data scientists can pitch tools, platforms, analytical capabilities, or more that change how a think tank operates. Communications specialists, filmmakers, and media producers can design new ways to translate libertarian ideas into formats to reach audiences we currently miss. Organizers and coalition builders can propose external engagement strategies that connect Cato’s research to communities, legislators, or institutions in novel ways.  

 

You can apply here.  Think Tank Watch will closely track who is hired for these uniquely advertised positions.  Stay tuned.

Think Tank Quickies (#330)

• Quincy Institute: "Think the Iran war was a disaster? Blame these DC think tanks first." 
• Euroskeptic think tanks on the rise. 
• Columbia students call out think tank's financial ties to Big Oil. 
• The Heritage Foundation is making more changes to its senior leadership as it looks to refurbish its image in Washington after a series of public relations setbacks.  Steve Chartan, previously VP for government relations at the think tank, will now serve as EVP of Heritage Action.
• The Trump-inspired realignment of the conservative think tank world.
• Inside the tense fight between Mike Pence and the Heritage Foundation. 
• Podcast: Inside the hidden world of think tanks. 
• Inside AEI's housing bill opposition. 
• WaPo: Heritage president toasted editor of controversial right-wing magazine. 
• A former general of Japan's Ground Self-Defense Force (GSDF) revealed he was targeted by a suspected Chinese "honey trap" while a researcher at Harvard University's Asia Center. 

Pentagon Cancels Think Tank Senior Service College Fellowships

The Department of War announced in a Feb. 27 memo that it is canceling Senior Service College (SSC) fellowships at a number of universities and think tanks, in what Secretary of War Pete Hegseth says is a campaign against anti-American values and "wokeness."

Fellowships will be cancelled at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), New America, Brookings Institution, Atlantic Council, Center for a New American Security (CNAS), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), and Stimson Center.

The memo said that potential new partner institutions include the Ted Stevens Center for Arctic Security Studies, the William J. Perry Center for Hemispheric Defense Studies, and the Africa Center for Strategic Studies. 

 

Think Tank Cited in China Spying Case

Here is more from The Times:

A former Labour adviser under investigation for allegedly spying for Beijing met the government’s Indo-Pacific minister in the Foreign Office before his arrest.

David Taylor, who is married to the Labour MP Joani Reid, met Seema Malhotra to help her prepare for a speech she gave in January at the Asia House think tank.

Taylor and two other men with links to the Labour Party were arrested by counterterrorism officers at addresses in London and Wales on Wednesday morning.

All three, alleged to have breached the National Security Act, have been bailed while the Metropolitan Police continues its inquiries.

Taylor, a former political adviser to senior Labour politicians who became a consultant and lobbyist with an interest in Asia, and his wife, the MP for East Kilbride & Strathaven, have been suspended from the party. In the aftermath of the arrests, Reid said that she had nothing to do with China, was no apologist for the Chinese Communist Party and had “never seen anything to make me suspect my husband has broken any law”.

Taylor, 39, is the head of programmes at Asia House, where he runs the all-party parliamentary group for central Asia for MPs and peers.

 

Here is a link to the speech given by Malhotra at the Asia House.

Think Tank Quickies (#329)

• CGD: The triple threat facing think tanks.
• Meet the new foreign affairs magazine: New Voyager. 
• New think tank launched to bridge talent gap in Hong Kong studies.
• Republicans accuse climate groups (Energy Foundation China and the Center for Climate Integrity) of doing China's "dirty work" in the US.
• Where is Trump's aggressive new stance toward the NATO alliance coming from?  One answer: a 2023 white paper authored by the British academic and conservative historian Sumantra Maitra.  In a paper published by the Trump-aligned think tank Center for Renewing America, Maitra sketched out a theory of what he called "Dormant NATO" - a radically re-imagined alliance in which America plays a much more minor role relative to its European allies. 
• Think tankers are members of the super-secretive Bohemian Grove society according to leaked documents.
• Sarah Ladislaw, a former senior director for climate and energy at the NSC under the Biden Administration, now runs the New Energy Industrial Strategy (NEIS) Center think tank. 
• Calls for Congress to bolster its in-house think tank's access to AI. 
• CSIS launched a project on avoiding strategic miscalculation in US-China relations. 
• Nikkei reporter Ken Moriyasu leaving newspaper to join the Hudson Institute as a Senior Fellow for Greater Asia. 

Anthropic Launching Its Own Think Tank

Artificial intelligence (AI) firms are taking the think tank world by storm.  Here is the latest from one of them, Anthropic:

We’re launching The Anthropic Institute, a new effort to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies. The Anthropic Institute will draw on research from across Anthropic to provide information that other researchers and the public can use during our transition to a world containing much more powerful AI systems. 

The Institute is led by our co-founder Jack Clark, who will assume a new role as Anthropic’s Head of Public Benefit. It has an interdisciplinary staff of machine learning engineers, economists, and social scientists, bringing together and expanding three of Anthropic’s research teams: the Frontier Red Team, which stress-tests AI systems to understand the outermost limits of their current capabilities; Societal Impacts, which studies how AI is being used in the real world; and Economic Research, which tracks its impact on jobs and the larger economy. The Institute will also incubate new teams, and is currently working on efforts around forecasting AI progress and better understanding how powerful AI will interact with the legal system. 

 

The new think tank has already made several hires and is still continuing to hire.  One job posting for an analyst lists the salary as $295,000 to $345,000.

A number of think tanks have created programs specifically focused on AI, and some AI-specific think tanks have been launched.  One example is the Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS), which bills itself as "a nonpartisan think tank that produces policy research to address the implications of AI."

Here is a recent piece on the future of think tanks in the age of AI.  Here is another piece on how think tanks can respond to the age of AI.  Here is another piece on the "triple threat," including AI, facing think tanks.

CSIS Names New CEO

Here is more from CSIS;

The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) today announced that retired General Joseph F. Dunford, who served as the 19th chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has been named its next chief executive officer.

General Dunford will assume the role on May 7, 2026, succeeding John Hamre, who announced last year that he will retire as CEO after 26 years of transformational leadership at CSIS. As CEO, General Dunford will oversee all aspects of CSIS’s research programming and operations, guiding the Center’s strategic direction and institutional growth. His appointment comes at a critical moment, as CSIS centers its scholarship on the defining challenges of a changing global order marked by strategic competition, technological transformation, and evolving security threats.

One of the nation’s most respected national security leaders, General Dunford brings decades of experience at the highest levels of national decisionmaking. He served as chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff—the nation’s highest-ranking military officer—under Presidents Barack Obama and Donald Trump, from October 2015 through September 2019. Previously, he served as the 36th commandant of the Marine Corps. He also commanded the International Security Assistance Force and United States Forces–Afghanistan from February 2013 to August 2014.  

John Hamre will continue contributing to CSIS’s scholarship and global engagement as CEO emeritus once General Dunford assumes the CEO position on May 7. 

 

Dunford has served on Lockheed Martin's board of directors since February 2020.  He has also served as a senior managing director and partner of Liberty Strategic Capital and as a member of the firm's investment committee since Feb. 2022.  Liberty is led by Steven Mnuchin, the former US Treasury Secretary in the first Trump Administration.  

In May 2022 he joined the board of directors of satellite imagery firm Satellogic.  A press release at that time said the board of directors of Satellogic included Mnuchin and Howard Lutnick, who is now the US Commerce Secretary. 

He's been a resident senior fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University, and he has been a board member of Georgetown University.

Think Tanker Manipulated Online Prediction Market

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:

Responsible Statecraft, a publication of left-leaning Quincy Institute, reports, that in November a staffer at the Institute for the Study of War was fired for editing a map to show that Russian forces had taken the Ukrainian town of Myrnohrad.  The employee knew that Polymarket often used the institute's maps to settle bets about military outcomes.  By fabricating a Russian advance, according to the report, the staffer triggered payouts as high as 33,000% on bets that Russia would take the town by Nov. 15." 

 

Here is Responsible Statecraft's piece on the incident. 

Tom Pritzker to be Axed as Chairman of CSIS over Epstein?

Here is more from Bloomberg: 

Tom Pritzker announced last week that he would retire as executive chairman of Hyatt Hotels Corp., the company that’s a core part of his family’s vast fortune, after the extent of his ties to Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell surfaced in a trove of millions of files released by the Department of Justice. 

While Pritzker stepped back from his role at Hyatt, he remains a trustee for the University of Chicago and serves on the board for the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

The executive committee of CSIS met Sunday to discuss the correspondence between Pritzker and Epstein at the request of John Hamre, the group’s chief executive officer and a former US deputy secretary of defense. The discussion lasted 90 minutes with Pritzker in attendance for the first 25 minutes, according to a note sent by Hamre to colleagues. The executive committee didn’t reach a conclusion, Hamre wrote.

 

Pritzker was named chairman of the CSIS Board of Trustees in 2015, succeeding former Sen. Sam Nunn (D-GA). 

The think tank also has a Pritzker Chair, which is considered to be one of CSIS's most prestigious positions.  The current chair is Thomas Christensen.

On Feb. 25, former US Treasury Secretary Larry Summers, a longtime think tanker, said he would resign from teaching at Harvard University at the end of the academic year, amid continued fallout over his ties to Epstein. 

On Feb. 26, World Economic Forum (WEF) chief Børge Brende said he is stepping down from that position after facing pressure over his contacts with Epstein.

CNN is keeping a running list of people impacted by the Epstein scandal. 

Trump-Aligned AFPI Expands in DC

Here is more from Politico:

The Trump-aligned America First Policy Institute bought the historic Colorado Building at 14th and G NW — massively expanding its footprint in Washington just steps away from the White House.

— AFPI finalized the sale in January and paid $20 million for the building, which sits near the Treasury Building and the soon-to-be new East Wing of the White House. The group was behind much of the Trump team transition planning and is filled with Trump loyalists. It was co-founded by now-Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, and now-Education Secretary Linda McMahon was the group’s chair before she left for the Trump transition team.

— AFPI was founded in 2021, and its rise to prominence in Washington, both in influence and now in footprint, was swift.

 

Mr. Greg Sindelar is the current Interim President and and CEO of AFPI.  He is also the CEO of the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF), an Austin, Texas based conservative think tank that expanded into Washington, DC in 2018.

Think Tank Quickies (#328)

• Tino Cuellar is stepping down as president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in July after nearly five years.  He'll lead the Center for Advanced Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University. 
• Claremonsters (i.e., Claremont Institute fellows) are everywhere in the Trump Administration. By one count at least 70 hold or have held jobs there.  "Unlike other think tanks, Claremont does not churn out policy papers.  Rather, its focus is on history and principle."
• Economist says that the American Enterprise Institute has "faded into irrelevance." 
• The MAGA-friendly think tanks Trump wants to fund. 
• Kevin Rudd, Australian ambassador to the US, will leave his post and lead the Asia Society.  His days were seen to be numbered after President Trump publicly said "I don't like you."
• Washington's Asia experts shift from think tanks to private power firms. 
• The National Conservatism Conference (NatCon) is run by the Edmund Burke Foundation, a Washington, DC-based think tank led by Yoram Hazony.
• Gene Sperling is starting an Economic Dignity Lab at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. 
• McCain Institute hosted the first international expansion of its Sedona Forum at the International House of Japan in Tokyo. 
• A new polling memo from influential Democratic think tank Searchlight Institute is urging Democrats to "play hardball" over the shutdown and use their "leverage to reform ICE."  [Searchlight is run by Adam Jentleson, the former chief of staff to Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) and top aide to former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).] 

Think Tanker to Become Next Fed Chair

Mr. Kevin Warsh, the Shepard Family Distinguished Visiting Fellow in Economics and the Hoover Institution and a lecturer at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, has been selected by President Trump to be the next chair of the US Federal Reserve.  He still needs to be confirmed by the US Senate.

Here is a statement from the think tank congratulating Mr. Warsh, who has been at Hoover since 2011.

60+ Have Quit the Heritage Foundation Amid Antisemitism Controversy

Here is more from Newsmax:

More than 60 senior staff members, fellows, and trustees have departed the Heritage Foundation in the wake of the crisis ignited by President Kevin Roberts' support for Nick Fuentes and Tucker Carlson, Newsmax has learned.

The departures signal deepening turmoil at one of Washington's most influential conservative think tanks.

In the past week, Andrew Hale, a senior Heritage policy analyst, exited the foundation.

The departures of senior people from Heritage span multiple departments and include longtime policy experts, senior leadership figures, and prominent fellows, according to people familiar with the organization's internal operations. 

As donor support has thinned, the organization has increasingly relied on its endowment, said to be worth more than $300 million, to cover operating expenses, a shift that insiders describe as unsustainable over the long term. 

Roberts has said he is Carlson's close friend, and it was later disclosed that Heritage had sponsored the host's podcasts for nearly $1 million. 

 

Newsmax notes that the biggest beneficiary of the Heritage departures is likely Mike Pence's think tank Advancing American Freedom (AAF).  "AAF has already hired more than 20 former Heritage employees in recent months, and former Attorney General Edwin Meese III has backed a new legal center at AAF, directly competing with one at Heritage that bears his name," said Newsmax.

New Think Tank Focusing on US-Canada Relations

Here is more from Politico:

On Jan. 1, Goran Samuel Pesic launched the United States Canada Institute, a Washington-based think tank. 

“At a time of accelerating geopolitical competition and economic realignment, the United States and Canada face shared strategic challenges that demand closer coordination,” Pesic wrote on LinkedIn. 

— ISO Americans: Pesic’s outfit is located in the Ronald Reagan Building, the former home of the Wilson Center’s Canada Institute. Chris Sands, that institute’s final director before its shuttering last year, laid out the cross-border think tank state of play via Substack.
Sands identified a “critical missing ingredient” in the landscape: American interest. “Too many Americans have been silent or complacent during the recent strain in the relationship with Canada,” he wrote.

 

Mr. Pesic is the President and CEO of the Samuel Group of Companies. 

New Think Tank Focused on US-Ukraine Defense Relations

Here is more from the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA):

It was near the end of 2023 when the deputy commander of Ukraine’s 3rd Assault Brigade, Lt. Col. Vladyslav Sobolevskyi, retired from active duty after fighting in two separate wars with Russia.

Looking to still make a contribution to the cause, he decided in January 2024 to establish a U.S.-style think tank, the Snake Island Institute, which would have a primary mission to serve as a facilitator between Ukraine’s armed forces and the U.S. government, its military, defense industry and the media.

The institute is named after one of Ukraine’s early and most famous victories on Snake Island located in the Black Sea, Sobolevskyi told National Defense during an interview in a downtown Washington hotel.

The institute’s leader was part of a delegation making the rounds in September to government, military representatives and U.S. think tanks to raise awareness about its work and create bridges between the two nations.

 

Here is a link to the think tank. 

North Korean Hackers Using QR Codes to Attack Think Tanks

Here is more from NK News:

The FBI has warned that a North Korean cybercrime group known for its prolific espionage operations is using QR codes to launch spear-phishing attacks against U.S. and foreign government entities and other institutions.

The Pyongyang-backed actor Kimsuky targeted nongovernmental organizations, think tanks, academia and foreign policy experts by embedding malicious QR codes in phishing emails in May and June, the bureau said in an alert on Thursday.

Using this technique known as quishing (QR code phishing), Kimsuky emailed a think tank head in May and pretended to be a foreign advisor seeking insight on recent developments on the Korean Peninsula, according to the advisory. The phishing email provided a malicious QR code to scan for access to a questionnaire.

The same month, the North Korean cybercrime group impersonated an embassy employee and sent a senior fellow at a DPRK human rights-focused think tank an email containing a QR code, which allegedly provided access to a secure drive.

In another attack in May, Kimsuky spoofed a think tank employee in an email with a QR code that redirected users to Kimsuky-controlled cyberattack infrastructure.

 

For years North Korea has targeted think tanks in the US and elsewhere. 

Heritage Foundation Calls for More Babies, Marriage Bootcamps

Here is more from the Washington Post:

A conservative think tank tied to the architects of Project 2025 is rolling out a sweeping set of policy proposals aimed at reshaping American families and promoting marriage and childbearing between heterosexual couples, according to a report obtained by The Washington Post.

A report from the Heritage Foundation, titled “Saving America by Saving the Family,” urges President Donald Trump and lawmakers “to save and restore the American family” through massive tax credits for families with more children while capping alimony payments, enacting strict work requirements on social benefit programs, discouraging online dating, creating marriage “bootcamp” classes and more.

The report suggests public-private partnerships to honor and provide monetary awards for every decade a couple remains married. It calls for a 16-year-old age limit on social media and certain AI chatbots, and further age restrictions on access to pornography, and it argues that “climate change alarmism” demoralizes young people and dissuades them from having children. 

 

The newspaper notes that Heritage's plan represents a "sharp pivot for the organization away from its tradition of promoting small government and free-market conservatism toward an ideology that embraces government intervention in affairs as private as procreation."