Think Tank Watch

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...

Trump's transition operation compiled lists of names of people deemed unworthy of serving in a 2nd Trump Administration, including cons...

The Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft has a new report on think tank funding in America.  Here is more from Politico: Among ot...

Trump-aligned think tank AFPI merges with Senate Working Group. CAP's answer to Project 2025. How Sue Mi Terry became the poster child...

Here is more from Politico: Board members of the Brookings Institution recently received an anonymous email titled “Brookings Leadership ...

Here is more from Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty: A Russian national, Nomma Zarubina , has been arrested on possible charges of providing...

Russian hackers targeted former US Ambassador to Ukraine Steven Pifer, a senior fellow at Brookings. Hidden camera video shows Project 202...

Here is more from The Hill: Georgian government officials raided the homes of local staff of an American think tank who work on tracking R...

More than 200 people appear on JD Vance's Venmo "friends" list.  Among them is Amalia Halikias, government relations director...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: A prominent economist at one of China’s top think tanks was placed under investigation, detain...

Here is more from Politico: Internal discontent is brewing at the Atlantic Council over the Washington think tank's decision to honor ...

Heritage Foundation suggests Biden may try to hold the White House "by force" if he loses the November election; says "zero...

Here is more from Reuters: The leader of a U.S. think tank who was indicted last year on charges of acting as an unregistered agent of Chin...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: Federal prosecutors on Thursday charged crypto lobbyist Michelle Bond with conspiring with her ...

Here is more: Agents of the FBI have raided and searched the Virginia home of Dmitri Simes , a prominent political commentator and author ...