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Thursday, June 5, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#516)

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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace canceled a conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi at their nuclear policy...
Friday, May 23, 2025

Think Tanks Helping Government Use AI for Peace Deals

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Here is more from The Economist: In a messy age of grinding wars and multiplying tariffs, negotiators are as busy as the stakes are high. ...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Jill Biden Joins Milken Institute

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Here is more from the Milken Institute: While women make up half the U.S. population and nearly half the workforce, women’s health has fac...
Thursday, May 8, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#515)

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Former Project 2025 chief Paul Dans has first major interview of Trump's presidency.  EPA moves forward with Project 2025. Trump, who ...
Thursday, April 24, 2025

Chinese Intelligence Posing as Think Tanks to Lure Fired USG Employees

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Here is more from the New York Times: The National Counterintelligence and Security Center warned on Tuesday that China’s intelligence ser...
Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Heritage Foundation Goes After Prince Harry

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Here is more from Newsweek: Prince Harry's visa papers have been the subject of a now two-year court battle about his past use of dru...
Friday, April 18, 2025

Kamala Harris to Start a Think Tank?

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Here is more from the New York Times: Yet some of [ Kamala Harris's ] closest allies say she is leaning against another White House ru...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#514)

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The Bonn-based IZA Institute of Labour Economics is set to close at the end of December after its main financial backer, Deutsche Post Foun...
Friday, April 11, 2025

Top China Think Tank Shuts Down Research Center After Questions of Party Loyalty

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Here is more from the South China Morning Post: China's top think tank has shut down its public policy research centre amid a new round...
Saturday, April 5, 2025

Hot New Trend at Think Tanks: Trade War Simulations

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Here is more from the New York Times: Last month, two dozen trade experts from the United States and other countries gathered at a Washing...
Thursday, April 3, 2025

DOGE Works to Shut Down Wilson Center

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Here is more from the New York Times: The head of the Wilson Center , a storied foreign policy think tank, resigned on Tuesday, a day afte...
Monday, March 31, 2025

Secret Pentagon Memo Has Heritage Foundation Fingerprints

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Here is more from the Washington Post: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has reoriented the U.S. military to prioritize deterring China’s se...
Monday, March 24, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#513)

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Career civil servants and foreign service officers who staffed the State Department's Policy Planning Staff office, which has historical...
Sunday, March 23, 2025

New Zealand Sacks Top Diplomat Over Talk at Think Tank

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Here is more from the New York Times: New Zealand on Thursday recalled its top diplomat in Britain after he made comments questioning Pres...
Friday, March 21, 2025

Trump-Aligned Think Tank AFPI Planning 100-Year MAGA Plan

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Here is more from Axios: Well-funded MAGA forces close to the White House are preparing a "100-year plan" to try to sustain Tr...
Thursday, March 20, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#512)

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Biden's Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo joins the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) as a distinguished fellow. An armed man arrested ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2025

Defense Department's In-House Think Tank to Be Cut

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Here is more from Breaking Defense: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is “disestablishing” the Pentagon’s Office of Net Assessment , a key of...
Tuesday, March 18, 2025

DOGE "Breaks Into" US Institute of Peace

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Just days after Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) officials, accompanied by the FBI, tried to enter the US Institute of Peace (USI...
Monday, March 17, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#511)

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The Heritage Foundation made a $200,000 ad buy supporting Trump's Cabinet nominations.  The Heritage Foundation erected a 30-by-60-foo...
Sunday, March 16, 2025

DOGE, FBI Try to Enter Think Tank on Trump's Chopping Block

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Here is more from The Hill: U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP) officials said several members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOG...
Saturday, March 15, 2025

Trump Signs Executive Order to Dismantle the Wilson Center

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Here is more from The Hill: President Trump on Friday signed an executive order that aims to eliminate seven federal agencies, including o...
Friday, March 14, 2025

Brookings May Become a Lobbying Shop

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Here is more from Politico: MORE DISCONTENT AT BROOKINGS: Employees of the Brookings Institution have sent another anonymous letter to t...
Thursday, March 13, 2025

Think Tank Document Prepared for Kremlin Demands Hardball for Ukraine Negotiatoins

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Here is more from the Washington Post: Russia should work to weaken the U.S. negotiating position on Ukraine by stoking tensions between t...
Tuesday, March 4, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#510)

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President Biden delivers major speech at Brookings, his last think tank speech as president. National security officials in Biden Administr...
Monday, March 3, 2025

Federal Funding Freeze Hits Think Tanks Hard

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Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: The Atlantic Council , a Washington-based think tank, has received notification from the State ...
Friday, February 28, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#509)

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Project 2025 leader back in the fold . Conservative Partnership Institute (CPI), the GOP think tank stocked with former staffers and allies ...
Sunday, February 23, 2025

Neera Tanden Returing to Helm Think Tank CAP

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Here is more from the New York Times: Neera Tanden , a longtime fixture of Democratic politics in Washington, is taking back her old post ...
Friday, February 21, 2025

Chinese Companies Threatening Think Tankers Over Unflattering Research

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An increasing number of Chinese businesses are threatening think tanks and universities with legal action in an attempt to stop damaging res...
Thursday, February 20, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#508)

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Tom Jones' Heritage Foundation-funded DHS Bureaucrat Watch List names 51 federal policy experts and high-ranking leaders to fire. Some ...
Wednesday, February 19, 2025

USIP on the Chopping Block with New Executive Order

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President Donald Trump has signed an executive order (EO) that will significantly shrink the size and scope of the US Institute of Peace (U...
Tuesday, February 18, 2025

Trump Wields Army of MAGA Think Tanks

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Here is more from Politico: President Donald Trump took office eight years ago as the ultimate outsider whose rhetoric often shocked Wash...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Think Tank Quickies (#507)

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Knives are out for AFPI's Brooke Rollins.  [New NYT article on AFPI: "The Group at the Center of Trump's Planning for a Secon...
Wednesday, January 22, 2025

Trump Fires Wilson Center Board Member

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President Donald Trump just fired his own former top Iran envoy, Brian Hook , from the board of directors of the Wilson Center . Members of...

Think Tank Quickies (#506)

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Trump's transition operation compiled lists of names of people deemed unworthy of serving in a 2nd Trump Administration, including cons...
Friday, January 17, 2025

New Report on Think Tank Funding in America

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The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has a new report on think tank funding in America.  Here is more from Politico: Among ot...
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