Think Tank Watch

Lydia Dennett of POGO: Foreign influence laws (i.e., FARA) may apply to think tank activity. Government-backed think tank warns of poten...

Think Tank Watch has read countless think tank papers over 100 pages long and would be happy to do so never again.  Should think tank report...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: H.R. McMaster, pushed out in April as President Donald Trump’s nation...

Here is more from Reuters: Maria Butina, accused in the United States of spying for Russia, had wider high-level contacts in Washington...

Evaluating increases in think tank executive compensation, by Ignacio Delcavoli. What does a think tank have to do with your life? ( via ...

Here are our favorite excerpts from a New York Times Magazine piece by Jonathan Mahler about how the conservative think tank Heritage Found...

The Washingtonian's Rachel Cohen has a new piece entitled "A Think Tank's Troubles" about huge problems at New America.  ...

The Washington, DC-based think tank Atlantic Council, which heavily supports US-Europe ties and NATO, is working furiously to counter what i...

GMU chief: Donor gifts didn't meet standards; Mercatus Center "violated" principles of academic freedom. Several think tank...

Here is more from the Washington Post: U.S. commanders are worried that if they had to head off a conflict with Russia, the most powe...

Here is more from the Washington Post: David Koch, one of two billionaire brothers whose powerful conservative network transformed Repu...

Heritage Action, the sister lobbying arm of the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation, recently announced that Tim Chapman has become...

New Stimson Center study : US has spent $2.8 trillion since 9/11 to fight terrorism.  CAP President Neera Tanden censored work? Dr. Tim ...

A private platform that scores of think tankers use to earn extra cash is reportedly being investigated by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.  ...

Here are some juicy tidbits from Reuters, in a piece entitled "The Singapore Hotel Where Top Brass, Dealers and Spies Rub Shoulders...

Tired of winning: DC think tanks, NYC magazines, and the search for public intellect. Indian think tank India Foundation accused of plag...

Think Tank Watch noticed this little tidbit from HuffPost: The Charles Koch Institute has an “associates program” that places young prof...

Here is more from HuffPost, in an article entitled "The Right-Wing Millennial Machine," which says that conservatives are buildin...

Here is more from Radio Poland: The Polish foreign ministry on Tuesday called in Moscow’s ambassador to Warsaw after the head of a Pol...

$1.8 million in campaign budget to get sanctions lifted from a Russian gas firm earmarked for think tank experts. Heritage Foundation hol...

When most people think of think tanks, they may picture soporific talks on the minutiae of energy policy or foreign affairs, men in suits po...

Here is more from the Washington Post: This year, former New York City mayor and financial media billionaire Michael Bloomberg is debut...

Here is more from The New York Times, in a piece entitled "White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears....

Heritage Action co-founder Mike Needham to become Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) chief of staff.  Skadden Arps' Greg Craig, who author...

This is from the New York Times: While many hands gripped the sword that undercut the Iran nuclear deal, no one outside the Trump admin...

Here is more from Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed: Earlier this year, leaders from the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, N...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal's Standards & Ethics team: We should seek quality, balance and variety in the think t...

Trump has made Washington hostile to experts like think tankers. Matthew Walther: "It is almost sad now to think of the millions of...

Several news agencies have identified the name of the apparent informant who monitored the Trump campaign: Stefan Halper. Here is what th...

Here is more from an Atlantic Council press release: The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab ( @DFRLab ) today announced a...