Think Tank Watch

From Defense One: ...A tight network of well more than 1,000 national-security-minded progressives—mostly in their 20s, 30s, and 40s—has...

Billionaire Peter Peterson announces new $200 million think tank: Peterson Center on Healthcare. Jeb Bush's education think tank: Fo...

Could there be a big think tank head swap in the cards? With the announcement that Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel is stepping down from his...

Republican Gary Palmer recently won a seat in the US House of Representatives, becoming what we believe to be the first think tank founder t...

Be careful what you say at think tanks, because it may come back to bite you in the future.  Even presidents are not immune. President Bar...

Think tank law via Peter Singer of NAF (formerly of Brookings): The more boring a think tank event, the more event reminders you will rece...

The Agenda with Steve Paikin, the current affairs program on TVOntario (TVO), will broadcast a program on November 17 titled " Think Ta...

Center for American Progress will hold its annual policy conference on November 19.  The event will be streamed live on MSNCB.com. Those...

Here is what The Washington Post is reporting: A veteran State Department diplomat and longtime Pakistan expert is under federal investi...

Some of Washington's top think tanks are quietly releasing funding data amid a powerful push by some groups for more transparency. The...

Truman National Security Project's "secret email" on Iran nuclear talks. Former Brookings Fellow Erica Downs joins Eurasia...

The White House recently announced that it intends to nominate David Berteau to be the next Assistant Secretary of Defense for Logistics an...

Amid pressure by various groups to disclose funding sources, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) has quietly released ...

On November 13 the think tank New America Foundation (NAF) will be hosting an event with celebrity chef Cat Cora, who will deliver a keynot...

Now that Think Tank Watch has viewed enough of the Brookings Fight Club video , we'd thought it was finally time to summarize some of th...

Brookings opened a branch in New Delhi, India less than two years ago, and rumors are already suggesting that Brookings now wants to ex...

Will Brookings expand in India?  Is Chennai branch next...? Growing stink about think tanks, by Alan Tonelson.  Stanford Law School gui...

Arctic ice melting is causing scientists, businesses, and others to pay much greater attention to the region, and creating a boon for the...

Elise Stefanik (R-NY), 30, is expected to win a US House seat tomorrow, making her the youngest woman elected to the House.  And, according...

Think tank watchers may have been too distracted last week by that little Washington Post piece on alleged donor influence on research at B...

The think tank world seems to be pushing the boundaries these days of what people have traditionally considered to be the role, activities, ...

David Abshire, co-founder and president emeritus of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) died on October 31 in Alexand...

Being the world's number one think tanks these days is not easy.  Just ask the leadership at Brookings, which was just bashed by the Was...

Tea Party conservative Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) is leaving Congress at the end of the year, and all she wants for retirement is to work ...

Wow is that revolving door fast. The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) has just announced that William Burns, former US D...

2003 flashback from RAND: How think tank interact with the military. Exit interview with DoD's Andrew Hunter, who is moving to CSIS ...

Here is what PCWorld is reporting: A diversification of targets for a clever keylogging attack suggests that several hacking groups ma...

Here is what People's Daily Online is reporting: President Xi Jinping called for a new type of think tank catered for China as the...

The libertarian Cato Institute has just established a new institute whose stated goal is to "challenge the Federal Reserve and the fin...

Harvard's Institute of Politics (IOP) recently announced that it will be partnering with three prominent think tanks - Brookings Instit...