Think Tank Watch

In Feb. 2025, former Chinese ambassador to the US Cui Tiankai quietly led the first of multiple delegations to Washington, meeting with thi...

Here is more from Politico: At a private meeting last month, a top Democratic strategist pitched party leaders and donors: We need to bre...

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

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. ...

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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