Think Tank Watch

Here is more from Politico: The Truman National Security Project is in trouble. The left-leaning network, formed in the heyday of the GEOR...

Here is more from The New York Times: A prominent foreign affairs analyst and senior State Department adviser was arrested over the weeken...

The Milken Center for Advancing the American Dream opened on Sept. 20.  Former First Lady Jill Biden has retired from her $100,000-a-year t...

Here is more from Politico:  Janet Egan , a tech and national security expert at the Center for a New American Security , last week wrote a...

Here is more from Politico: One small think tank is driving health policy within the GOP. It has also created friction on Capitol Hill an...

Here is more from the Washington Post: As Democrats search for their way out of the political wilderness, a new think tank, introduced on ...

China detains senior diplomat who had recently embraced US think tanks, such as the Asia Society.  Former Secretary of State Antony Blinke...

Here is more from Reuters:  U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday said he was nominating economist E.J. Antoni as the new Bureau of Labo...

Ed Feulner, founder, trustee, and longest serving president of the Heritage Foundation, has died . China urges think tanks to halt stableco...

Here is more from the New York Times: The Republican architect of Project 2025 — the right-wing blueprint that Democrats made a rallying ...

Here is more from Politico: An academic who has drawn criticism for inflammatory statements on race and praise of the Chinese government ...

RAND Corp.: China's Evolving Industrial Policy for AI.  European Marine Board: "An ocean-policy think tank." Flashback: Fren...

Here is more from Politico: The Pentagon has suspended participation in all think tank and research events until further notice, accordin...

Here is more from Korea Pro: A South Korean nonprofit affiliated with Seoul’s foreign ministry has funneled at least $9.4 million to U.S. ...

Pro-Trump think tanks and advocacy groups paid top Trump Administration officials including White House Chief of Staff Susie Wiles and poli...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:  Harvard leaders have discussed creating a program that people briefed on the talks described ...

The night USIP was taken over, March 17th, staffers from Elon Musk's DOGE walked around its headquarters smoking cigars and drinking bee...

Here is more from CNN: The second campaign, according to the cable, began in April and involves a “Russia-linked cyber actor”...

US Institute of Peace staff received termination notices.  But now judge says Trump lacked authority to dismantle USIP. Project Esther: In...

Here is more from the New York Times: Mr. AndreiCherny , the co-founder of a nearly two-decade-old liberal policy journal, is organizing a...

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...