Think Tank Watch

Here is more from FP: The [Mike] Pence-backed nonprofit Advancing American Freedom released a legislative agenda that calls for canceling ...

Here are some think tank-related excerpts from the book Spies and Lies by Alex Joske , the youngest-ever analyst at the Australian Strategi...

Brookings and staff union reach initial one-year agreement. GOP think tank wonks trying to get their party not to detonate the debt limit ...

Here is more from the Eli Clifton, a senior advisor at the Quincy Institute and Investigative-Journalist-at-Large at Responsible Statecraft...

Here is more from Politico: Susan Rice has made it clear she’s not interested in becoming the Brookings Institution ‘s next president, thr...

This week the Atlantic Council said that John Herbst , Senior Director of the think tank's Eurasia Center, may have been poisoned by Ru...

Here is more from The New Republic (TNR): At some point over the past few years, the Biden administration revoked one of the few progressi...

Here is more from the Washington Post, which asked Microsoft's Bing AI dozens of questions to evaluate the chatbot's answers and so...

The McCain Institute announced Politico and CBS as its media partners for its 2023 Sedona Forum. Open Secrets: "One of the main issues...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:  A recent campaign to restrict overseas access to China-based data sources was partly triggere...

Here is more from the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS): The Board of Trustees of The International Institute for Strate...

Here is more from Politico: The China Strategic Risks Institute (CSRI), set to launch on May 10 at an event in the U.K. House of Lords, a...

Think Tank Watch asked ChatGPT to explain what a think tank is to a three-year-old.  Here is what it came up with: Okay, imagine you have a ...

Bipartisan Policy Center hosted a ceremony to present its Patriot Award to former President George W. Bush at National Harbor, Maryland.  E...

Here is more from Canada's Global News: The March edition of the Macdonald-Laurier Institute magazine, Inside Policy, called Russia’s i...

The Heritage Foundation continues to make plans to staff a potential Republican administration in 2025.  Here is more from the New York Tim...

Additional details have come out about Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster's pay at the Hudson Institute , where he is the Japan Chair.  Here is mor...

Here is more from Business Insider: Conservatism used to be synonymous with free markets. Maybe not for much longer. The Heritage Foundatio...

Mr. Tucker Carlson , who was just fired from Fox News, has already been offered a job from the Heritage Foundation . Here is more from the ...

Think tank: World risks descending into climate doom loop. How Kevin Roberts flipped the script at the Heritage Foundation. Sasakawa Peace...

Here is more from Politico: It’s 2027. Taiwan’s leadership is considering declaring itself an independent country. Chinese paramount leader...

Think Tank Watch has learned that a number of US think tanks are increasingly cautious about hiring Chinese citizens amid growing US-China c...

Here is more from ProPublica: For more than two decades, [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ] has accepted luxury trips virtually ever...

Recent hearing offers case study in how Emirati and Bahraini funding has become omnipresent at major foreign policy think tanks, and reveal...

Here is more from The Independent: China has imposed a fresh tranche of sanctions against the US in retaliation against House speaker Kevin...

Here is more from Fedscoop: The Internal Revenue Service is working with technology public policy nonprofit New America to study the feas...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was presented with the Hudson Institute's Global Leadership Award at an event in New York City. The ...

Here is more from Rolling Stone: Donald Trump is asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to ...

Lack of disclosure on de facto lobbying at think tanks has triggered a bipartisan reaction, says Luke Goldstein in the American Prospect. U...

Not that the world needs another think tank, but this week Think Tank Watch asked ChatGPT to create several different think tanks, including...

Here is more from the Washington Post: As graduation approached in 2020, [GRU operative Sergey] Cherkasov flooded the field with applicati...

Here is more from the Washington Post: A little-known conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas , the wife of Supreme Co...

New ASPI report: China trumps US in key technology research.  CSIS's translation project opens window on China's ambitions, fears. ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , a possible Republican presidential contender, has strong ties to the Claremont Institute , which has been descr...

Here is more from the New York Times: For years, Kohelet Policy Forum quietly churned out position papers, trying to nudge government pol...