Think Tank Watch

Here is more from Politico: Jerry Taylor , the co-founder and president of the Niskanen Center , recently resigned from the Washington, D...

The Atlantic Council has the usual donor mix of large defense corporations, technology companies, and foreign governments that a typical ma...

The COVID-19 has had a significant impact on the think tank landscape in Washington, DC, altering the way think tanks operate and leaving ma...

Former chair of the House Armed Services Committee Mac Thornberry has joined RAND Corporation as an adjunct senior fellow.  Rebekah Koffler...

With the US withdraw of troops from Afghanistan, there have been numerous pieces written about how a number of think tanks over the years ha...

Here is more from The Intercept: In 2018, when the government awarded a massive $769 million contract to Alion Science and Technology , a d...

Dr. Mariano-Florentino “Tino” Cuéllar , Associate Justice of the California Supreme Court, has been named as Carnegie Endowment for Intern...

US Navy keeps closer watch on Chinese submarines, says Beijing-based think tank South China Sea Strategic Situation Probing Initiative (SCS...

Here is more from Politico: The most D.C. of mini-scandals is happening right now: A think tank is hosting a book event for a former Trump...

Here is more from the Washington Post: [US Generals] including Stanley McChrystal , who sought and supervised the 2009 American troop sur...

With the COVID-19 pandemic continuing to put the kibosh on most in-person think tank events, people have started to turn to private salons o...

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...