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Think Tanked http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss= Allen McDuffee reports on the world of think tanks and public policy research. 15 en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Copyright 2012 Washington Post Company Think Tanked 140 20 http://www.washingtonpost.com?wprss= http://media3.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:51:57 EST 92 <![CDATA[Does Iran’s nuclear diligence mean diplomacy is futile? Is everything economic growth? [AM Briefing]]]> “Iran’s slow and steady progress for two decades has demonstrated beyond frantic rhetorical efforts at denial that diplomacy has not only been futile, but has provided Iran political cover and legitimacy while it pursued its nuclear objectives. Even more important, negotiations and the imposition of weak, ineffective sanctions have given Iran time to reach the point where its nuclear activities are broad and deep, and it is close to winning the strategically important race to the nuclear-weapons finish line,” writes AEI’s John Bolton. (Washington Times)

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1000.3.3000676377 1db208fc-5e21-11e1-bbec-c37b528bc490 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:38:00 EST Thu, 23 Feb 2012 08:51:57 EST 20120223135157 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/23 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/23 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Tonight’s GOP debate: Why are viewers suffering fatigue? Policy vs. personality]]> Even with more than a month since the last GOP presidential candidate debate, after nearly 20 debates, voters (and viewers) are still feeling a sense of fatigue coming into tonight’s Republican debate in Mesa, AZ--and there’s no shortage of reasons why.

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1000.3.2971542274 7173a078-5d62-11e1-a8e0-00b90eaf6701 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:58:00 EST Wed, 22 Feb 2012 15:08:29 EST 20120222200829 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/22 Tanked Debate Tanden.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/22 Tanked Debate Tanden.xml <![CDATA[Franklin Graham on Obama and religion, Obama’s fundraising woes and more [AM Briefing]]]> Politico’s Arena asks: Are Evangelist Franklin Graham’s comments about President Obama’s religion a sign that religious voters are questioning Obama’s faith? Or will the comments lose steam before the election? Brookings’ Darrell West answers that this is the polarized world we live in and it’s the media’s job to fix it.

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1000.3.2970535943 4e6603c8-5d5d-11e1-a8e0-00b90eaf6701 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:14:00 EST Wed, 22 Feb 2012 09:25:36 EST 20120222142536 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/22 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/22 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Afghanistan and Pakistan in the 2012 elections]]> As a part of their new Campaign 2012 series, the Brookings Institution’s Michael O’Hanlon talks with Ben Wittes about Pakistan and Afghanistan and how the two countries--and U.S. policy toward them--will factor into the 2012 election cycle.

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1000.3.2945345825 bdeb7052-5cb3-11e1-8c28-8f1c9e65d2ac Tue, 21 Feb 2012 12:56:00 EST Tue, 21 Feb 2012 13:08:54 EST 20120221180854 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/21 Tanked Brookings Pakistan.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/21 Tanked Brookings Pakistan.xml <![CDATA[Are Romney, Santorum, Gingrich and Paul all part of Frankenstein’s monster? [AM Briefing]]]> If you could take a little from each of the GOP candidates, you could have a perfect candidate. Or... “Of course, you could just as easily have a Frankenstein’s monster with Gingrich’s verbal pomposity, Santorum’s resentful and dour sanctimony, Paul’s conspiratorial nuttiness and the full suite of Romney’s Stepford Republican qualities. It calls to mind Homer Simpson’s scheme to forcibly mate his pets in a burlap sack so as to create ‘a miracle hybrid, with the loyalty of a cat and the cleanliness of a dog,’” writes AEI’s Jonah Goldberg. (LA Times)

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1000.3.2938399822 a7b091da-5c88-11e1-afcd-84ed020c291d Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:53:00 EST Tue, 21 Feb 2012 07:57:40 EST 20120221125740 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/21 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/21 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Super PACs should be accountable to the parties, forget bi-partisan Obama and more [AM Briefing]]]> Obama’s recent concession on super PACs and Restore Our Future sitting on $17 million from 60 donors means 2012 will be the most expensive election yet. What should be done? Repeal the rest of McCain-Feingold, writes PPI’s Lindsay Mark Lewis. (New York Times)

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1000.3.2829015736 5c9fada4-5966-11e1-806f-44a7bdac6164 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:04:00 EST Fri, 17 Feb 2012 08:10:40 EST 20120217131040 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/17 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/17 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Insider trading: Why does Congress need a separate law? [Ask a Think Tank]]]> Cassie J from San Francisco writes in the following question:

Why does Congress need a separate law regarding insider trading? Insider trading is insider trading and illegal no matter who does it, right?

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1000.3.2801521651 1afa5ece-58af-11e1-a0b0-4cc207a286f0 Cassie US Congress insider trading Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:04:00 EST Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:23:00 EST 20120216152300 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/16 Tanked Cato Insider Trading.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/16 Tanked Cato Insider Trading.xml <![CDATA[Mitt Romney and Republican constituencies, Obama and counterterrorism and more [AM Briefing]]]> Mitt Romney lost a major asset--not being able to say he’s the obvious choice to defeat Obama: “Romney was never fully trusted or liked by the staunchest conservatives, a rather large Republican constituency. But until now, enough of them have been willing to swallow their doubts at critical moments because they believed the former Massachusetts governor was the one potential nominee who could win the election,” writes Brookings' E.J. Dionne. (Washington Post)

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1000.3.2800353905 76d7c32a-58a6-11e1-a0b0-4cc207a286f0 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:17:00 EST Thu, 16 Feb 2012 09:29:47 EST 20120216142947 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/16 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/16 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[A crowdsourcing think tank?]]> Of the consistent complaints I hear about think tanks and the scholars who occupy them, two have to do with the degree of expertise.

One complaint centers around the phenomenon that experts are too often willing to appear as talking heads on subjects outside their expertise. Some of it is innocent enough. It’s not possible for think tanks to have an expert for every world event or issue, so think tankers extrapolate from the areas in which they genuinely have expertise. Other times, it’s clear that media ambition trumps being a good expert.

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]]> Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:33:00 EST <![CDATA[Mitt Romney as Hubert Humphrey, contraception as economic choice and more [AM Briefing]]]> “Mitt Romney could end up being the most hapless presidential nominee since Hubert Humphrey in 1968. Romney aims to lead a party whose base is in revolt — against him. Just like liberals were in revolt against Humphrey in 1968,” writes Third Way’s Bill Schneider. (Politico)

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1000.3.2731712031 3b41b1d0-56fe-11e1-8fb4-e176e27720b6 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:46:00 EST Tue, 14 Feb 2012 06:49:04 EST 20120214114904 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/14 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/14 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Elliott Abrams: U.S. should back Syrian opposition with money and arms]]> Appearing on CNN’s GPS with Fareed Zakaria on Sunday alongside Fawaz Gerges and Rami Khouri, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Elliott Abrams said the United States needs to decide which side of the Syrian conflict it will stand on: the winning side with the Syrian opposition or the losing side with Bashar al-Assad.

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1000.3.2705655775 0c836e36-566a-11e1-b179-a3550fc9144e Bashar al-Assad Hezbollah Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:26:00 EST Mon, 13 Feb 2012 13:55:05 EST 20120213185505 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/13 Tanked CFR Abrams.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/13 Tanked CFR Abrams.xml <![CDATA[Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum head-to-head, the cost of culture wars and more [AM Briefing]]]> Rick Santorum vs. Mitt Romney: “Both the ‘Santorum’s stronger’ and ‘Romney’s stronger’ theories seem plausible to me now; neither seems proven. I’ll keep them in mind as the race continues,” writes AEI’s Michael Barone. (National Review)

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1000.3.2698204763 a550fe86-5646-11e1-b179-a3550fc9144e Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:43:00 EST Mon, 13 Feb 2012 08:53:40 EST 20120213135340 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/13 Tanked AM Briefing.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/13 Tanked AM Briefing.xml <![CDATA[Sunday Talk Shows (2/12/12): Rick Santorum, Meet the Press, Face the Nation, GPS and more]]> The Sunday political talk shows aer dominated by Rick Santorum and White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew. The only think tankers to hit the Sunday shows are Brookings’ E.J. Dionne on Meet the Press and CFR’s Elliott Abrams on GPS with Fareed Zakaria.

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1000.3.2632782421 fdffb7d2-54c2-11e1-9e19-c55f30b5fd05 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:43:00 EST Sat, 11 Feb 2012 10:55:41 EST 20120211155541 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/11 Tanked Sunday Talk Shows.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/11 Tanked Sunday Talk Shows.xml <![CDATA[Does the United States know who would succeed Assad in Syria? [Ask a Think Tank]]]>

Margaret C. from Albany, NY writes in with this question on Syria and a potential successor to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad:

How can the Obama administration be keen on Syrian President Assad stepping down when they have not once mentioned who would take over? Nearly a year after the massacres and we still have no idea who would follow Assad? How is that possible? Is the intelligence community doing their job in determining who the players are? And if they are, does John McCain not know about it? He hasn’t offered up an alternative to Assad either.

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1000.3.2597185581 967ebf10-53e9-11e1-b5b8-b9870c2dac05 Bruce Riedel Central Intelligence Agency intelligence community Fri, 10 Feb 2012 08:32:00 EST Fri, 10 Feb 2012 09:15:19 EST 20120210141519 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/10 Tanked Brookings Riedel.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/10 Tanked Brookings Riedel.xml <![CDATA[Intervention in Syria by a Muslim military force?]]> Writing at The New Republic, Washington Institute for Near East Policy scholar Soner Cagaptay almost seems to be talking about something other than an intervention in Syria when he says it “needs to be velveteen in nature, soft to the touch and woven patiently over time.”

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1000.3.2564514196 176cd39e-5342-11e1-8b3f-981af5242cff Thu, 9 Feb 2012 12:32:00 EST Thu, 9 Feb 2012 13:07:01 EST 20120209180701 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/9 Tanked WINEP Syria.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/9 Tanked WINEP Syria.xml <![CDATA[Tamara Cofman Wittes leaves Middle East post at State Department for Brookings]]> The Brookings Institution announced Wednesday that Tamara Cofman Wittes, former deputy assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, will re-join the think tank as the director of its Saban Center for Middle East Policy effective March 1.

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1000.3.2532859093 45815618-528b-11e1-bd4f-8a7d53f6d6c2 Haim Saban U S State Department human rights Wed, 8 Feb 2012 15:20:00 EST Wed, 8 Feb 2012 17:54:26 EST 20120208225426 The Washington Post /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/8 Tanked Brookings Wittes2.xml /WashingtonPost/Content/Blogs/think-tanked/201202/8 Tanked Brookings Wittes2.xml