Think Tank Watch

The Heritage Foundation continues to make plans to staff a potential Republican administration in 2025.  Here is more from the New York Tim...

Additional details have come out about Lt. Gen H.R. McMaster's pay at the Hudson Institute , where he is the Japan Chair.  Here is mor...

Here is more from Business Insider: Conservatism used to be synonymous with free markets. Maybe not for much longer. The Heritage Foundatio...

Mr. Tucker Carlson , who was just fired from Fox News, has already been offered a job from the Heritage Foundation . Here is more from the ...

Think tank: World risks descending into climate doom loop. How Kevin Roberts flipped the script at the Heritage Foundation. Sasakawa Peace...

Here is more from Politico: It’s 2027. Taiwan’s leadership is considering declaring itself an independent country. Chinese paramount leader...

Think Tank Watch has learned that a number of US think tanks are increasingly cautious about hiring Chinese citizens amid growing US-China c...

Here is more from ProPublica: For more than two decades, [Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas ] has accepted luxury trips virtually ever...

Recent hearing offers case study in how Emirati and Bahraini funding has become omnipresent at major foreign policy think tanks, and reveal...

Here is more from The Independent: China has imposed a fresh tranche of sanctions against the US in retaliation against House speaker Kevin...

Here is more from Fedscoop: The Internal Revenue Service is working with technology public policy nonprofit New America to study the feas...

Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen was presented with the Hudson Institute's Global Leadership Award at an event in New York City. The ...

Here is more from Rolling Stone: Donald Trump is asking for a plan to wage war in Mexico, and the Republican Party is eager to give it to ...

Lack of disclosure on de facto lobbying at think tanks has triggered a bipartisan reaction, says Luke Goldstein in the American Prospect. U...

Not that the world needs another think tank, but this week Think Tank Watch asked ChatGPT to create several different think tanks, including...

Here is more from the Washington Post: As graduation approached in 2020, [GRU operative Sergey] Cherkasov flooded the field with applicati...

Here is more from the Washington Post: A little-known conservative activist group led by Virginia “Ginni” Thomas , the wife of Supreme Co...

New ASPI report: China trumps US in key technology research.  CSIS's translation project opens window on China's ambitions, fears. ...

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis , a possible Republican presidential contender, has strong ties to the Claremont Institute , which has been descr...

Here is more from the New York Times: For years, Kohelet Policy Forum quietly churned out position papers, trying to nudge government pol...

Two think tankers were extremely influential in putting together the trilateral AUKUS security pact between the US, UK, and Australia.  Here...

A number of helpful rules for attending Washington think tank events, via Politico. The Daily Wire: Biden's FCC nominee works for a th...

"Think Tank Flashback" is a new series where Think Tank Watch looks back at now-defunct think tanks.  Starting off is a little-kno...

Here is more from Politico: The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change , the government advisory outfit set up by the former Labour Party ...

In USA Today, Carol "Rollie" Flynn and Tara Spencer of the Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) explain how a number of st...

New MIT research on the spread of retracted research in policy literature. IISS held a closed-door event in Singapore with GCHQ head Sir J...

Following are some of Think Tank Watch's favorite lines from the Molly Ball piece in Time entitled "Niskanen Center, the Most Inte...

Here is more from Axios: Semafor , the 5-month-old news startup, is drawing criticism in the U.S. for partnering with a think tank in Chi...

Here is more from Politico: A prominent Democratic think tank is raising alarms about a third-party ticket spoiling 2024 for Democrats and ...

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) has announced that Michael Froman will replace Richard Haass to become the think tank's fifte...