Think Tank Watch

Rule No. 1 of think tank land: Don't mess with donors.   Rule No. 2?  Don't mess with donors. Here is more from Kenneth Vogel of T...

Here is even more evidence that President Donald Trump is not reading your think tank report.  Says the Washington Post: Trump had littl...

Here is what The Intercept is reporting: The United Arab Emirates on pace to contribute $20 million over the course of 2016 and 2017 to...

Another big blow to think tanks from The New York Times: Imagine you’re a millionaire or billionaire with strong political views and a ...

RAND Corp. expands into Silicon Valley.  Think tank in France (Fine Minds 4 Fine Wines, or FM4FW) discusses the future of "fine...

Here is more from the conservative news site Breitbart: White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster served at a UK-based think t...

Politico recently highlighted the work of Lisa Curtis , the former Senior Research Fellow in Asian Studies at the Heritage Foundation's...

Here is more from The Washington Post: Amazon’s general counsel, David Zapolsky, had a lot on his mind last month when he and four memb...

Obama's Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz starting low-carbon energy think tank. Project 2049 Institute: China carries out think tank pr...

The Clinton-friendly think tank Center for American Progress (CAP) suffered a big blow when Donald Trump beat Hillary Clinton for the presid...

Although the salary would likely be more than six times as much as his current salary as a US senator, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) has declined an...

Former Heritage Foundation President Jim DeMint, who was ousted this spring from what is arguably the most influential conservative think ta...

Think tank RethinkX says $25 oil is coming. Exxon gave $1.6 million to think tanks and advocacy groups opposing climate change in 2016. ...

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...