Think Tank Watch

Dr. James McGann, Director of the Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program (TTCSP) at the University of Pennsylvania, died on Nov. 29. Dr. M...

Here is more from Politico: Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) introduced new legislation that would place more stringent requirements on witnesses ...

What buying the support of top think tanks gets you.  Senate Republicans want Biden nominee to commit to briefing by think tankers. A Chin...

Here is more from Politico: Virginia Gov.-elect Glenn Youngkin has tapped two staffers at the conservative Heritage Foundation for promi...

Here are a couple excerpts from a new Washington Post piece on the closed-door Council for National Policy (CNP): I learned about another ...

  Here is how Politico described Atlantic Council's annual awards party: WASHINGTON’S ‘OSCARS’ TONIGHT: That’s how the Atlantic Council...

Here is more from the New York Times: An analyst who was a key contributor to Democratic-funded opposition research into possible links be...

Here is more from Bloomberg: Russian leader Vladimir Putin refused to be pinned down by a former Donald Trump aide when asked during his an...

Ms. Heather Conley , Senior Vice President for Europe, Eurasia, and the Arctic, and Director of the Europe, Russia, and Eurasia Program at t...

Brookings and Brookings Doha Center end their affiliation.  Should Nielsen do ratings for think tank discussions? Microsoft: Russia the mo...

Here is more from CNN: If China were to seize one of Taiwan's outlying islands, the US would have few good options to respond without...

Here is more from the RAND Corporation: Michael D. Rich , chief executive and president of the nonprofit, nonpartisan RAND Corporation f...

Here is more from the New York Times: Russia’s premier intelligence agency has launched another campaign to pierce thousands of U.S. gover...

Annual salary of CFR President Richard Haass: $1.78 million (more than 4x what US president makes).  UAE often covertly funds think tanks;...

Here is more from the Heritage Foundation: The Heritage Foundation today announced Dr. Kevin Roberts will become the seventh president in ...

Heidi Shierholz named as new president of the Economic Policy Institute (EPI). Open Society Foundation is undergoing restructuring, causin...

Here is more from Politico: ERIC SCHMIDT , the former Google CEO, is launching a new initiative called the Special Competitive Studies Pro...

Here is an excerpt from The New Republic (TNR): I recently reached out to more than two dozen nongovernment witnesses who testified in the...

Here is more from the New York Times: Last year, two prominent foreign policy think tanks in Washington severed ties with the Hungary Foun...

The America First Policy Institute (AFPI) names former SBA Administrator Linda McMahon as chair of its new Center for the American Worker. ...

Here is more from Politico: Jerry Taylor , the co-founder and president of the Niskanen Center , recently resigned from the Washington, D...

The Atlantic Council has the usual donor mix of large defense corporations, technology companies, and foreign governments that a typical ma...

The COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the think tank landscape in Washington, DC, altering the way think tanks operate and leaving ma...

Former chair of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry has joined RAND Corporation as an adjunct senior fellow.  Rebekah Koffler...

With the US withdraw of troops from Afghanistan, there have been numerous pieces written about how a number of think tanks over the years ha...

Here is more from The Intercept: In 2018, when the government awarded a massive $769 million contract to Alion Science and Technology , a d...

Dr. Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar , Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, has been named as Carnegie Endowment for Intern...

US Navy keeps closer watch on Chinese submarines, says Beijing-based think tank South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCS...

Here is more from Politico: The most D.C. of mini-scandals is happening right now: A think tank is hosting a book event for a former Trump...

Here is more from the Washington Post: [US Generals] including Stanley McChrystal , who sought and supervised the 2009 American troop sur...

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to put the kibosh on most in-person think tank events, people have started to turn to private salons o...

Sarah Ladislaw, managing director at RMI, a clean energy-focused think tank formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, denies that h...

  Here is more from Josh Rogin of the Washington Post: Kim Ki-jung , former Moon adviser who is now president of the Institute for Natio...

Here is more from Politico: One of the most powerful Democratic-allied groups in D.C. is warning party members that they risk leaving wom...

Here is an excerpt more from a new New Yorker piece: Elbridge Colby , a fortysomething graduate of Yale Law School , was the Deputy Assista...