Think Tank Watch

Here is more from the Arizona Republic: Kurt Volker, executive director of the Arizona-based McCain Institute, resigned Friday as the T...

Stephen Miller, a senior advisor for policy for President Donald Trump, may be the largest consumer of think tank reports in the entire Whit...

Here is what Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) scholar Robert Knake unearthed: Despite what his profile says, Sean Brown does not wor...

Stock image sites don't know what a think tank is.  WaPo: Women are mysteriously missing from DC think tanks' foreign policy pan...

Here is more from DeSmog UK: The BBC has altered its editorial guidelines after persistent calls for the organisation to improve tran...

Inside a Trump-era purge of military scientists at a legendary think tank (Jason). How a trio of conservative think tanks rewired Americ...

Politico is reporting that former House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) is joining the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) as a Distinguished Visit...

Think tanks are often used by companies and other entities to promote an idea, proposal, or philosophy.  Other times, they are used for more...

In a rare move, Iran has sanctioned a little-known US think tank that has played an outsized role in imposing US sanctions on Iran.  Here i...

Is Washington more of a college town than a think tank town? Prospect think tank awards have arrived . How Tope Folarin of Institute fo...

Here is more from Bloomberg: One of China’s most prominent independent think tanks will cease operations after years of attempts by gov...

Here is more from the conservative Daily Caller: Democratic representatives Adam Schiff, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, and Maxine Waters ar...

Here is more from ABC News: Long-shot Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Gravel -- an 89-year-old former Senator from Alaska whose qui...

Jeffrey Epstein gave millions to think tanks? Washingtonian interviews Robert Doar, the new head of AEI; so does WaPo. What is the Eas...

A new poll from UK-based consultancy We Are Flint that was conducted online by YouGov shows that only 9 percent of Americans can name a thin...

Here is more from the Salt Lake Tribune: The Russian government has banned a U.S.-based think tank previously headed by Jon Huntsman, a...

Here is more from The National: The board of the Arabia Foundation, a think tank based in Washington, has decided to shut down operation...

2020 presidential candidate Mike Gravel bashes Brookings. In 2011, Michael Mann took climate change denial think tank to court and now t...

Here is more from the Washington Post: Two and a half years into President Trump’s tenure, the Republican national security heavyweights...

Here is more from the New York Times: The Committee on the Present Danger , a long-defunct group that campaigned against the dangers of...

Here is more from Reuters: Scores of Asia specialists, including former U.S. diplomats and military officers, want President Donald Trum...

Michael Ledeen: The End of the Think Tank Era. Did Mike Pompeo secretly discuss his presidential ambitions with Sen. Tom Cotton at AEI...

Here is more from Politico about a recent Competitive Enterprise Institute's (CEI) party to celebrate its 35 years in existence: The...

Here is more from the Associated Press: Once a skeptic about climate change, Jim Bridenstine came around to the prevailing view of scie...

Here is more from the Associated Press: Two people with links to an infamous Russian troll farm have been arrested in Libya, their empl...

Here is more from the Washington Post about George Papadopoulos, a former member of the foreign policy advisory panel to Donald Trump's...

Here is more from Politico: The 2020 hopeful has tapped deep into her former world of academia, going well beyond Beltway think tanks. ...

The think tank world in changing rapidly, with a number of new think tank concepts that are changing the way ideas and policies are shaped a...

Australian think tank: Climate change could pose existential threat by 2050. Economist: Can think tanks survive a post-fact world?  Fed...

Here is more from Daily Beast: ThinkProgress , the flagship news site of the Democratic think tank Center for American Progress, is up f...