Think Tank Watch

Washington is a town that oozes power.  Powerful lobbyists, powerful interests groups, powerful government entities such as Congress and the...

It was the think tank transition heard around the world (or at least in Washington).  The liberal Brookings Institution has poached economi...

New CFR InfoGuide explores Islam's Sunni-Shia divide. Amr Adly and Carole Nakhle join Carnegie Middle East Center. CSIS hosts pres...

The British press is reporting that two "secret" tape recordings from think tank events have emerged that give insight into ta...

The brain drain continues at the Heritage Foundation. The Brookings Institution announced last week that that Heritage Foundation economi...

The New York Times has made a bold claim : Conservative think tanks are being marginalized.  Here is what they say: The policy journals an...

The Project on Leadership and Development and Project on Prosperity and Development at CSIS launch a new development blog called Prosper . ...

It is often considered the most powerful think tank in the world, but its name has been butchered for decades.  A non-profit employee was ev...

It may be one of Washington's newest think tanks, but it has a lot of money and a lot of powerful backers.  More precisely, it was found...

First it was revealed this week that a US senator had plagiarized from various think tanks, and now a reporter at BuzzFeed reportedly plagi...

Most Congressional-watchers are predicting tough times for Democrats in the upcoming midterm Congressional elections, and with many lobbying...

Many think tankers over the years have been caught plagiarizing other peoples work, but when it comes to members of the US Congress plagiari...

Think tanks do scientific method in reverse : start with your (cash-sponsored) conclusion, then search for scraps of supporting evidence?  ...

CQ Weekly recently had an article titled " Finding a Middle Without Moderates " in which it talks about various centrist groups in...

The Brookings Institution's Saban Center for Middle East Policy has dropped "Saban" from its name and is officially just The C...

To borrow some words from W.C. Fields, Think Tank Watch is free of all prejudices, it hates all think tank awards, rankings, and ratings equ...

Esquire just published an article saying that scholars at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) are printing op-eds throughout the media ...

Last week Think Tank Watch started a new series called "Think Tank Pic of the Day" in which we highlight the best think tank-relat...

What if the Brady Bunch had started a hawkish think tank?  Welcome to the Cheney think tank? Art Pope has directed millions into creatin...

If there is a current event in the news, the odds are very good that a think tank somewhere in Washington (or elsewhere) is commenting on...

Many of the top US think tanks were not on Prospect Magazine's Think Tank of the Year shortlist .  What about Brookings?  What about Ame...

The award goes to David Nather of Politico in his article about the Cheney clan titled "Cheneys Show United Front...Minus One."  ...

The Inter-American Dialogue (IAD) just won this year's Prospect Magazine Best Think Tank of the Year Award for best US think tank. In...

IDEAS, a Research Papers in Economics (RePEc) service hosted by the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis has an upda...

One can argue whether the Heritage Foundation is in decline, but one cannot argue when it comes to the think tank's dominance in terms o...

Storms rolled across the Washington, DC region today, leaving many think tankers stuck inside cranking out memos and policy pieces. Here i...

UK's Prospect Magazine has just released the shortlist for its 2014 Think Tank of the Year Awards:  USA Think Tank of the Year Carn...

Climate change-skeptical think tank CEI demanded corrections in Obama Climate Czar John Holdren's climate speech. New CSIS report: D...

Think tanks are generally safe places to give speeches.  Sure, you may get a rogue audience member asking bizarre questions, or a mildly ...

Jasper Tsang Yok-sing, head of Hong Kong's Legislative Council will be coming to the United States this summer to study high-powered...