Think Tank Watch

Two-part series in The Wire on US think tanks in India. The crisis of African think tanks.  Chinese hackers target think tanks to stea...

One think tank essentially controls nearly all the major thinking of the Trump Administration: Heritage Foundation.  Here is more from The ...

China seems to be stepping up efforts to target think tankers who work on defense and military affairs.  Here is more from CrowdStrike: ...

Do think tank experts who do forecasting get it wrong all the time? Gar Alperovitz: Centrist think tanks won't save our cities. Tru...

The tweet of the week comes from Stephen Taylor, a former fellow at the Manning Centre in Canada. The most surreal part of the Trump er...

Tax think tanks are having a moment . Vice President Mike Pence gives remarks at Hudson Institute's Herman Kahn Award Dinner. Victo...

The Washington, DC-based German Marshall Fund (GMF) is housing an initiative that consists of an all-star team of national security experts ...

The Center for a New American Security (CNAS) has new leadership.  Here is more from the defense-oriented think tank: The Center for a N...

While most North Korea experts are housed within multimillion-dollar think tank buildings or universities with hundreds of millions of dolla...

Marcus Raskin, the co-founder of liberal think tank Institute for Policy Studies (IPS) has died.  Here is more from the New York Times. ...

Hottest holiday parties on the Hill list includes Heritage and AEI ( attendees list ). Bill Gates elected foreign academician at top Chi...

Here is more from the Washington Post: The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is about to launch a two-year analysis of Russia’...

The Heritage Foundation has just announced that Kay Coles James, a member of the think tank's Board of Trustees since 2005, will become...

The national dialogue on sexual harassment and sexual assault in the workplace is inching closer to think tank land, as a new movement surfa...

Sexual harassment at TED talks (and think tanks)? White House visitor logs: Heritage dropping in on Budget Czar Mick Mulvaney. Nonresid...

Here is what the Associated Press (AP) is reporting: The head of Germany’s domestic intelligence agency is warning that China is us...

The US State Department has strong ties to a number of US think tanks and provides them millions of dollars for various studies and othe...

Here is more from The Times at the London-based think tank Legatum Institute: A think tank with close links to Conservative Brexiteer...

Is the US falling behind in publishing think tank papers? Sam Patten's Committee to Destroy ISIS funded Hudson Institute feasibility...

Pro-transparency advocate Transparify has just released a new study showing that Canadian think tanks lag behind their US and UK brethr...

Here is more from Foreign Policy: The Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), located just a sho...

Sebastian Gorka, a former Deputy Assistant to President Donald Trump, has long been affiliated with a number of think tanks, and he has now ...

DARPA recruiting from academia (and think tanks?) in bid for fresh thinking. Kevin Warsh of Hoover was on short-list to take over Janet ...

Here is more from The Washington Post: The activists gathered behind closed doors in a Houston hotel meeting room last week had long ex...

Is there bias against female think tankers? Professors (and think tankers?) behaving badly. Quote of the week: Think tanks go to Washin...

Former Donald Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, who was affiliated with the Hudson Institute for years, has pleaded guilty to lying to the ...

WSJ: The media's go-to think tank (Tax Policy Center) trashes GOP tax reform without evidence. European Parliament report : What thin...

This is from a New York Times piece entitled "Amazon Lobbyists Ramp Up Charm Offensive in Capital," which discusses the company...

Michele Flournoy, Co-Founder and CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), will be stepping down from her position to start a ne...

Earlier in the year, after a major shake-up at the conservative Heritage Foundation that led to the ouster of its president, Jim DeMint, th...