Dr. Fran Buntman of the Sociology Department shared this article with us and we wanted to pass it along. The article discusses potential impacts of new ways of knowing/learning that policymakers and their staffs may choose over traditional research https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-theory/wp/2015/10/05/are-think-tanks-obsolete/?noredirect=on&postshare=981444164532437&utm_term=.4c6cf3cdc95e