Think Tank Watch

Suzanne DiMaggio of the think tank New America helped establish an unofficial channel with the North Koreans in early 2016, according to The...

Here is more from The Hill: House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) is trying to eliminate 89 positions from the nonpartisa...

With more foreign money flowing into US think tanks, it is becoming more commonplace for think tanks and their scholars to use congressional...

Think tank European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR) moving operations from London over Brexit. Prestigious Chinese think tank (Shangh...

This is from an 11-page statement to congressional committees that Jared Kushner has released ( as reported by Axios ): With respect to m...

Here is more from a Washington Post piece on Jake Sullivan, senior policy advisor to Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential campaign and f...

Here is more from The Wall Street Journal: Over the past decade, Google has helped finance hundreds of research papers to defend against ...

AEI President Arthur Brooks weighs in on whether or not think tanks matter. Chart : Elite confidence in various think tanks, via Dan Drez...

Hacked US government emails show that certain experts at think tanks are being heavily targeted by foreign spy agencies.  Here is more from...

Here is more from Foreign Policy: Caught with a bag of cash and an electronic device used to communicate with his handlers, a former gove...

Here is more from Politico: The Heritage Foundation has hired the executive search firm CarterBaldwin to assist in its search for a new ...

These days, think tanks often do lobbying on behalf of donors, but it is quite rare for think tanks to have their own hired guns to help the...

Think Tank Watch has learned that the Dallas, Texas-based free-market think tank National Center for Policy Analysis (NCPA) is closing after...

Sens. Todd Young (R-IN) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) Co-Chair CSIS Congressional Task Force on Reform and Reorganization of US Development As...

Here is more from Josh Rogin of The Washington Post : At the end of August, the Foreign Policy Initiative will cease to exist, ending ...

The following are a few of Think Tank Watch's favorite excerpts from Daniel Drezner's new book The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, P...

Think tanks may be losing credibility, but they are gaining in numbers.  Here is more on the latest think tank being formed, from USA Today...

US-Colombia Business Partnership and Atlantic Council hold reception and dinner at Library of Congress for Colombian President Juan Manuel ...

Here is more from the Superior Telegram: Thursday, the Republican-controlled Joint Finance Committee allocated $3 million in state fund...

A new study shows the extent that US taxpayers are helping fund the liberal-leaning Brookings Institution, a think tank that consistently co...

A little-known US think tank has played an outsized role in encouraging the Trump Administration to pull out of the Paris climate agreement....

Zbigniew Brzezinski, Counselor and Trustee at CSIS and co-founder of the Trilateral Commission, passes away .  AEI head Arthur Brooks prop...

It looks like 2017 is shaping up to be the a major year for turnover of think tank presidents. New presidents are expected at both the Bro...

Congratulations to the Happiness Research Institute (HRI) for being the coolest think tank of the month.  HRI, a think tank based in Copenh...

A variety of think tank scholars are friends with people in high places, allowing them to gain access to secrets about the internal workings...

USIP chief Nancy Lindborg featured in Washington Life Magazine. CNAS has launched a new Transatlantic Security Program and a new project...

With all the turmoil in the White House, some Trump Administration officials are starting to look for employment elsewhere, including in thi...

Here is more from Amanda Terkel in HuffPost: White House chief strategist Steve Bannon withdrew from a planned appearance at one of Wash...

Turkish President Recep Erdogan visited Washington, DC on Tuesday and while there was no riot on "Think Tank Row" like last ye...

Reproducibility crisis in research studies. Former director of research at the Heritage Foundation, James Wallner (now an adjunct profess...