Think Tank Watch

The following is from the just-released University of Pennsylvania think tank rankings: Brookings Institution Carnegie Endowment for Inte...

The following rankings are from the University of Pennsylvania think tank rankings which have just been released. Brookings Chatham House...

The University of Pennsylvania has just released its annual think tank rankings list - the 9th version of its extensive rankings of the worl...

In a recent interview with Federal News Radio, Paul Light, a professor at New York University (NYU) and founding principal investigator of ...

Think tankers often describe their politics leanings as conservative, or liberal, or moderate.  Those are way too safe and boring. In a Ca...

The liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP), which has deep ties to Hillary Clinton and the Obama Administration, has unionize...

Record snow which has blanketed Washington, DC, the home of the densest concentration of think tanks in the world, has forced the closing of...

Spiritual leader Marc Gafni: " Thank God I run my own think tank, otherwise I'd never get a job." Think tanker Peter Singer...

The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) announced today the launch of Carnegie India , a branch of the think tank which will ...

This is a 2013 piece from Daniel Drezner that Think Tank Watch just came across.  At that time, Drezner had just become a Nonresident Seni...

Here is more from The Intercept: Saudi Arabia’s well-funded public relations apparatus moved quickly after Saturday’s explosive executio...

In a new review of Matt Ridley's new book "The Evolution of Everything," Jim Tankersley, the economic policy correspondent for...

Vox.com is looking to hire a think tank editor as it plans to launch "Vox Think Tank," a new section that aims to highlight repor...

PR firm FitzGibbon Media, which had Center for American Progress (CAP) as a client, closes after founder is accused of sex assault. Think...

The liberal think tank Economic Policy Institute (EPI) has developed a Family Budget Calculator that tallies the annual income needed to su...

Do think tanks contribute to the fact that so many Americans are skeptical about climate change?  Here is more from a new Yale study, as de...

Neera Tanden, the President of the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) who has close ties to Hillary Clinton, is calling f...

This from the New York Times: In a culture ruled by the instant feedback loop of retweets, likes and hearts, the snap (and by “snap” we...

Justin Sandefur of CGD: " Biggest lesson so far in think tank land: The returns to being opinionated & sounding authoritative are...

TheBestSchools.org has just released a new list of the 50 most influential think tanks in the United States, compiled using a set of criter...

Haleh Esfandiari, a scholar who spent more than 100 days in solitary confinement in Iran's Evin Prison in 2007, says that she was int...

Jin Liquan, president-designate of the new China-led Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB), formally invited the United States to join...

Dr. John Hamre , President and CEO of the Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), is warning of a cyber Pearl Harbor, saying that hostil...

Will some of Mark Zuckerberg's billions in donations go to think tanks?  Kevin Allen starts #CloudMinds, a traveling think tank. AE...

As you may have heard by now, Princeton University students are demanding the removal of all references to former US president Woodrow Wils...

Many think tanks work around the clock to address climate change issues.  Nevertheless, there are calls for even more think tanks to help so...

Think tanks are working at a furious pace to publish reports and analysis on Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL), hold events on how to defeat ISIS, ...

Center for a New American Security (CNAS) announces formation of ISIS Study Group. CNAS announces new project on the future of ground fo...

Have think tanks been helping grease the wheels for the massive $160 billion Pfizer-Allergan merger that has just been announced?  Here is m...

Peter Singer, Director of the Brookings Institution's Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence and Senior Fellow in Foreign Pol...