The Think Tank New Breed (IFP + FAI)
Caleb Watney (Institute for Progress) and Max Bodach (Foundation for American Innovation) on what the new breed of DC think tanks does differently and why the old model is broken.
We discuss:
Why "counterfactual policy impact" matters more than white papers and what's wrong with project-based funding
Cross-partisanship vs. picking sides: IFP pulls the rope sideways, FAI builds a big tent on the right
Vertical integration over specialization — the person who wrote the brief should be the one selling it on the Hill
Whether AI eats the think tank or just the parts that weren't working anyway…
The skinny
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