Think Tank Watch

Although many Obama officials are fleeing to think tanks, some think tankers are still climbing the ladder in the Obama Administration. J...

David Petraeus to head KKR & Co. LP's new global investment think tank. American Action Forum (AAF) adds healthcare hires. CEPR...

The Wall Street Journal is reporting that more than two dozen military analysts from 10 major think tanks are planning to release a joint l...

Rep. David Dreier (R-CA), who served in the House from 1981-2013, has joined the Brookings Institution as a Distinguished Fellow.  Rep. Dre...

Disclosing the funding of think tanks in Australia. New Bahrain think tank MEPAR to help improve workings of government. Chinese think...

Doing some driving for the Memorial Day weekend?  Do you expect to be stuck in traffic?  Two American Enterprise Institute (AEI) scholars, R...

Rand Corp. turns 65. Heritage Action letter to Congress gets slammed .  Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) rebrands itse...

Ken Silverstein, a contributing editor to Harper's and a fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard Unversity, just penn...

Neera Tanden , President of the Center for American Progress (CAP) and Counselor to the Center for American Progress Action Fund (CAPAF), sa...

The American Enterprise Institute (AEI) will be hosting an event on Tuesday (May 21) titled " Free Beer: Liberating Libations from ...

PIIE searching for first-ever C. Fred Bergsten Senior Fellow. Hollywood actor Rainn Wilson advocates at CEIP for release of 7 religious ...

Lee Edwards , Distinguished Fellow in Conservative Thought at the Heritage Foundation, has just written a new book about the think tank tit...

Did the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) target conservative think tanks? The IRS reportedly started singling out certain 501(c)(4) groups ...

Fallout from Heritage Foundation's recent immigration study continues at a feverish pace.  Following are some of the latest headlines an...

The immigration debate has left the venerable Heritage Foundation a bit bruised and battered.  But is the Heritage Foundation in decline?  H...

Ranking the worst think tanks in the world. RAND: Cost of dementia tops $157 billion annually in the US. Cato vs . Heritage intern deba...

Politico has just labeled former Sen. Jim Demint (R-SC) and The Heritage Foundation as one of five players who could stop immigration refor...

Ambassador Princeton Lyman, President Obama's former Special Envoy for Sudan and South Sudan, has joined the US Institute of Peace (US...

Secretary of State John Kerry has appointed James Dobbins to be the new Special Envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. Dobbins will leave the...

Here is what Jeffrey Goldberg writes: Here is the genius of Qatar, the peanut-sized Persian Gulf state that provides material support ...

Cato video : Subsidizing the security of wealthy nations. NYTimes: Heritage Foundation " losing " online sales tax fight.  USIP...

David Brooks writes : Look at most think tanks. They used to look like detached quasi universities; now some are more like rapid response...

Brookings Nonresident Senior Fellow Justin Wolfers , just released a paper with his co-author wife, Betsey Stevenson, which basically say...

No think tankers make FP's Power Map of the 500 most powerful people on the planet. Heartland's Joe Bast on running a think tank...

Here is what is being reported: Taiwan's National Security Bureau (NSB) has released a report which states China's cyberarmy ...

Boston bomber tied to conservative think tank? Chatham House talk : "Twitter is faster than the CIA and sometimes more accurate....

Bruegel Director Jean Pisani-Ferry has resigned to become Director of the French Prime Minister's Economic Policy Planning Staff in Pa...

Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's term ends January 31, 2014, and there has been lots of speculation about who may be the next C...

Here is what The Hill is reporting: The former head of the International Energy Agency (IEA) is heading to Columbia University's Cent...

The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) is teaming up with Capitol File to host two events at the White House Correspondents Dinner (WHCA), als...