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Thursday, August 29, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #78

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Third Way makes a mixtape for the summer of 2013. Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) to speak at Minnesota think tank Center of the American Experime...
Wednesday, August 28, 2013

Hillary Clinton Wins Chatham House Prize 2013

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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who many think will run for president in 2016, has just won the Chatham House Prize 2013, beatin...

New Head at Wilson Center's Kissinger Institute

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The Wilson Center announced this week the Robert Daly has been appointed to head the think tank's Kissinger Institute on China and the...
Tuesday, August 27, 2013

Atlantic Council Opens Brand New Headquarters

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The Atlantic Council of the United States (ACUS) has recently announced the opening of its new headquarters. The new address of ACUS is 1...
Monday, August 26, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #77

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Tax deductions under the think tank microscope . On Think Tanks to publish new weekly blog series focusing on key issues for think tanks....
Wednesday, August 21, 2013

Petraeus Joins British Think Tank RUSI

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David Petraeus, the former Central Intelligence (CIA) Director, has just been named as Senior Vice President of the Royal United Services I...
Tuesday, August 20, 2013

USIP Tapped by Defense Dept. for 2014 QDR

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The United States Institute of Peace (USIP) has been asked by the US Department of Defense to facilitate the work of the 2014 Quadrennial D...
Monday, August 19, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #76

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A cheat sheet for UK think tanks. Chart: Political leanings of selected UK think tanks. Justin Wolfers re-joins Brookings as a Senior ...

Heritage's New $550K "Defund Obamacare" Campaign

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Today Heritage Action for America, the lobbying arm of the Heritage Foundation think tank, announced a $550,000 "Defund Obamacare...

Critics Question Impartiality of BPC

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Here is what the is being reported by the Washington Post's Wonkblog: As the self-proclaimed “only Washington, DC-based think tank ...
Friday, August 16, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #75

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Why think tanks should focus on people as much as policy. Report says BBC has a bias towards left-wing think tanks.  Full Centre for Po...

The Rapper of Libertarian Think Tank Land

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Comedian Remy Munasifi is the new face of the libertarian think tank scene. The Washington Post recently noted that he has teamed with R...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Wilson Center President Leaving for France?

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The Washington Post's Al Kamen is reporting that former Congresswomen Jane Harman (D-CA), who is now the Director, President, and C...
Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Fresh Hacker Assault on Unnamed Think Tank

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Here is what is being reported on Raw Story via Agence France-Presse: The hackers who penetrated the computer network of The New York ...

Jennifer Rubin: The "Once Great" Heritage Foundation

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The Washington Post's Jennifer Rubin, a neoconservative, has just written a piece titled " Where Did The Think Tank Go? ," in...

Think Tanks: Power, Policy, and Plagiarism

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A new working paper was just published by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University titled " Think Tanks' Dirty...
Monday, August 12, 2013

The Influence of CSIS

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The Boston Globe has just outlined the "new era of partisanship" at many think tanks and the role that money plays in those insti...

The New "Think Tank Industrial Complex"

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Bryan Bender of The Boston Globe has a new piece titled " Many D.C. Think Tanks Now Players in Partisan Wars, " which says we hav...
Thursday, August 1, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #74

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The role of think tanks in New Hampshire politics. China's State Councillor Yang Jeichi attends 2nd Forum of Interchange between Chi...
Wednesday, July 31, 2013

Larry Summers Using CAP to Win Fed Nomination?

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Last week the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) announced that former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers is co-chairing a...

Venezuela Sets Up Think Tank to Study Chavez's Ideas

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Here is what the Wall Street Journal is reporting: Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, still smarting from the death of his predeces...
Monday, July 29, 2013

Brookings Scholar Named Middle East Peace Envoy

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Martin Indyk , Vice President and Director of Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution, has been named by Secretary of State John Kerry ...
Thursday, July 25, 2013

Fmr. Wisconsin Gov. Tommy Thompson Joins BPC

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The Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) announced this week that former Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) and former Governor of Wisc...

Think Tank Quickies #73

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Brookings announces new trustees, including Obama's former "car czar" Steven Rattner. Leadership challenges at think tanks...
Tuesday, July 23, 2013

Heritage Becomes "Handful" for GOP

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Here is what The Wall Street Journal is reporting: For four decades, the Heritage Foundation was a stately think tank that sought to defi...

Treasury's #2 to Join Think Tank

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Neal Wolin, the Deputy Treasury Secretary, reportedly will step down next month and is planning to take a post with a "not-yet determi...
Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Think Tank Quickies #72

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NAF's Open Technology Institute (OTI) launches "Drone U." Saudis, Qataris, and Kuwaitis have a headlock on much of the for...
Tuesday, July 16, 2013

CAP's Larry Summers Lobbying to be Next Fed Chair

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Larry Summers, former Treasury Secretary under the Clinton Administration and White House economic advisor under President Obama, is report...

Think Tank Offers Cash Prize for EU Exit Plan

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Here is what AFP is reporting: A British think-tank on Tuesday launched a competition for the best plan to leave the EU -- offering a...
Monday, July 15, 2013

Prospect Magazine Praises Work of US Think Tanks

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More information is being published about Prospect magazine's annual think tank awards, which Think Tank Watch has previously written a...
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