Think Tank Watch

Diane Rehm Show : Think tanks funding and influence. The " Golden Age " of think tanks in China. The Hill newspaper announces l...

This is from a PBS NewsHour interview of French economist Thomas Piketty by correspondent Paul Solman: Paul Solman: Will inequality thre...

Here is what Inside Philanthropy is reporting: The Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies is the Tiffany & ...

Here is more from The Hill newspaper: If Rep. Jeb Hensarling (R-Texas) wants to fuel speculation that he’s going to make a run for Speak...

Fun with Dick Cheney & Lynne Cheney at AEI. Think tank thinks thinking tanks policy needs rethink. Wilson Quarterly relaunches on ...

Here is more from Melinda Haring , Associate Scholar at the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) and Hannah Thoburn , Eurasia Analyst a...

Awkward.  Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and former senator Jim DeMint (R-SC) have a long history a feuding.  DeMint, who no...

Besides Think Tank Watch, how many of you have actually read a think tank report from front to back?  And I'm not just talking about the...

Will think tanks be impacted by decline of donors with wills? UK invites Atlantic Council to host future leaders meeting at NATO Wales S...

The World Bank recently conducted a study about how many of its reports are actually downloaded.  Here are the shocking results, as summari...

Both the Director (Tilman Bruck) and Chairman (Goran Lennmarker) of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) have hav...

A coalition of think tanks will be hosting three discussions about the Iran nuclear negotiations to coincide with the last three rounds of ...

Former Rep. Cliff Stearns (R-FL): Congress turns to think tanks such as AEI and Heritage to read the thousands of reports that federal age...

The Wall Street Journal has launched a new feature called Think Tank , a section of WSJ.com that draws news and analysis from outside contr...

The Clintons are cozying up to some of the most powerful think tanks in Washington, making sure that influential think tanks are on their si...

Here is more from Roll Call: A senator is vocally contesting the inclusion of a project in his home state in the 2014 ”Congressional Pig ...

White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) Google/Netflix party held at US Institute of Peace (USIP). CFR President Richard Haass...

The nonprofit groups Transparify has released the first-of-its-kind report on think tank funding transparency, and not surprisingly, most th...

This week the Brookings Institution announced a new blog called PlanetPolicy which aims to shape the debate on energy and climate change. ...

The Democracy Alliance (DA), an invitation-only donor group founded in 2005 to help build powerful liberal think tanks and activist groups t...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has a useful directory of research links related to think tanks and international affairs.  Here is ...

Think tanks harsher in their appraisal of President Obama is general? How the Center for Global Development (CGD) leverages donor dollar...

On May 1 the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announced that Michele Flournoy will become the think tank's new CEO. She repl...

Last month the Urban Institute (UI) released an intriguing report titled " Estimating the Size and Structure of the Underground Commer...

Here is what Politico is reporting: Former President Bill Clinton is set to headline next month’s annual Center for American Progress fu...

SIPRI says that military spending continues to fall in the West but rises everywhere else.  World military expenditures totaled $1.75 tril...

Who says that the think tank world is not lucrative? Sure, people at think tanks often complain about low salaries, but many do not realiz...

Transparify, a new initiative coordinated by think tank expert Hans Gutbrod, has some excellent resources for those digging deeply into t...

The Brookings Institution is among the well-known nonprofits that receives money from the Laura and John Arnold Foundation , a group created...

Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) makes first appearance ever at CSIS. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) again says Wall Street should disclose its thi...