Think Tank Watch

During the last economic crisis, most major US think tanks took a 3 year hit . Chinese Embassy in Canada attacks Macdonald-Laurier Instit...

In a May 23 tweet, Center for American Progress (CAP) President and CEO Neera Tanden said that she has the coronavirus. I have the coron...

Here is more from Politico: The global pandemic and a dramatic rise in U.S.-China tensions have further eroded the unofficial talks tha...

Here is more from Politico: A new conservative think-tank in Washington is launching its first campaign Wednesday with what could be a ...

Think tanks warn of coronavirus "budgetary gluttony" in states.  Reimagining think tanks in times of pandemic. RUSI report : ...

Here is more from Bloomberg: The messages began arriving in World Health Organization employees’ inboxes in early April, seemingly inno...

Here is more from the Washington Post:   The Aspen Institute think tank announced it would return $8 million in federal small-busines...

Here is more from Reuters: An internal Chinese report warns that Beijing faces a rising wave of hostility in the wake of the coronaviru...

Here is more from Politico: A blueprint released by The Heritage Foundation’s National Coronavirus Recovery Commission caught the atte...

BPC: COVID-19 could deplete social security as early as this decade. ISPI launches #ThinkTanksReact campaign to show solidarity amid COV...

Here is more from E&E News: It's brother versus brother in the climate wars. Two of the primary think tanks fighting it out...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is apparently in ill health and hasn't be seen in public in weeks.  A Washington, DC-based think tank, h...

Here is more from Cato Institute's Peter Goettler and Robert Levy in a Wall Street Journal op-ed: The libertarian think tank we lead...

Here is more from the New York Times: White House economists published a study last September that warned a pandemic disease could kil...

Here is more from the New York Times: Chinese officials appeared to have relied on borrowing falsehoods pushed by anti-American organiz...

Here is a tweet from Hans Gutbrod of Transparify: More on #thinktanks after the 2008 crisis. Taken together, revenues for top US #thinkt...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: As lawmakers last week completed a record-shattering economic-rescue package estimated at $2...

Think tank claims hundreds of fishing boats intrude into Chinese waters. Conservative site Gateway Pundit: DC think tanks lobbying for i...

The response to the coronavirus pandemic has already caused many job cuts, and it is sure to hurt funding at a number of think tanks. Can ...

Here is a little tidbit from Neil Pyper in The National Interest: A number of think tanks and consultancies provide  early warning servic...

While nearly every Washington think tank large and small has closed their offices and instituted telework policies, they still continue to c...

What happens to think tanks in a recession (or depression)? Hunter Biden was on the board of the Truman Center for National Policy.  Pi...

Here is more from BuzzFeed: Last month, a BuzzFeed News investigation found that people at more than 2,200 organizations have tried Cl...

Here is more from Japanese broadcaster NHK: US President Donald Trump has nominated the head of a conservative think tank as new ambassa...

Here is more from Politico: Berin Szóka , the president of TechFreedom , a libertarian-leaning think tank, will step down “after tweetin...

Republican-aligned think tanks have joined the push by foreign-funded dark money groups to lobby the IRS to repeal remaining reporting req...

Here is more from The Hill: Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is taking stronger positions on foreign policy compared to his White House bi...

Here is more from Reuters: Tens of thousands of ethnic Uighurs were moved to work in conditions suggestive of “forced labor” in factori...

Here is more from Axios: As the coronavirus continues to spread around the world, a Chinese government-owned think tank is soliciting ...

Did the new think tank Quincy Institute help stop war with Iran?  China's growing trail of think tanks and lobbyist in Europe. CSIS...