Think Tank Watch

Sarah Ladislaw, managing director at RMI, a clean energy-focused think tank formerly known as the Rocky Mountain Institute, denies that h...

  Here is more from Josh Rogin of the Washington Post: Kim Ki-jung , former Moon adviser who is now president of the Institute for Natio...

Here is more from Politico: One of the most powerful Democratic-allied groups in D.C. is warning party members that they risk leaving wom...

Here is an excerpt more from a new New Yorker piece: Elbridge Colby , a fortysomething graduate of Yale Law School , was the Deputy Assista...

National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) launches Emerging Technologies Institute (ETI).  FP event: Can local think tanks save democ...

While it appears that most of the think tank community is safe for now, artificial intelligence (AI) is getting so good that it may one day ...

Here is more from Bloomberg: The former finance and administration director with the Middle East Forum failed to show her boss sexually ...

Business Insider : At least 99 former Trump officials have establishment ties with prominent lobbying shops, law firms, think tanks, or big ...

Three Chinese think tanks have just published a hard-hitting new report bashing the US for its COVID-19 response and calling the US a "...

Here is more from The Atlantic: Just as Hungary now sponsors English-language think tanks designed to promote [Hungarian Prime Minister Vi...

FP Analytics (FPA), the independent research division of Foreign Policy magazine, has published a new report entitled " Navigating T...

A new paper by the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) says that kleptocracies are using universities and think tanks for reputation la...

Daily Caller: Jeffrey Epstein friend, client (Leslie Wexner) still a trustee of Aspen Institute. Oregon think tank threatens to sue over s...

After reports surfaced that ExxonMobil's two most important allies in think tank land are the Brookings Institution and the Center fo...

 This is from Foreign Lobby Report: The Heritage Foundation released a report calling for a “renewed strategic partnership between the Unit...

Supreme Court throws out state law requiring nonprofits to name rich donors; "will make think tanks even less transparent."  Trea...

  Here is more from Politico: For the Washington think tanks and foundations that work to control the spread of nuclear weapons, the Doomsd...

  Here is more from Politico: The American Principles Project (APP), a populist Republican group that has been advocating against the inf...

  Here is more from the Jerusalem Post: Iranian hackers masqueraded as British scholars with the University of London's School of Orie...

Jack Levine, chief climate officer at the US International Development Finance Corp., is shopping a paper by Barbara Matthews of the Atlant...

 Here is more from The New Republic (TNR): Not everyone is happy about Unearthed’s recent exposé on ExxonMobil . Shortly after the Greenpe...

As China and Russia appear to be cozying up to each other and drifting further apart from the US, they have begun working closely on think ...

Here is more from US Department of Justice: United States Attorney Duane A. Evans today announced Russell Vennell , age 59, of Jefferson ...

Top 10 highest paid CEOs at nonprofits in 2021, via Economic Research Institute (none are think tankers).  Politico asks: when is a nonprof...

Purdue University's Purdue Research Foundation (PRF) has just launched a new "tech tank" that is being billed as the US's...

Before becoming Chairperson of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in the Biden Administration, tech critic Lina Khan was a think tanker.  He...

Here is more from Associated Press: A German man who ran a think tank has been arrested on suspicion of being an informant for Chinese in...

Here is more from a SpyTalk interview: The entire U.S. intelligence community—17 agencies in all—has been penetrated by Chinese spies, says...