Think Tank Watch

Here is more from Radio Poland: The Polish foreign ministry on Tuesday called in Moscow’s ambassador to Warsaw after the head of a Pol...

$1.8 million in campaign budget to get sanctions lifted from a Russian gas firm earmarked for think tank experts. Heritage Foundation hol...

When most people think of think tanks, they may picture soporific talks on the minutiae of energy policy or foreign affairs, men in suits po...

Here is more from the Washington Post: This year, former New York City mayor and financial media billionaire Michael Bloomberg is debut...

Here is more from The New York Times, in a piece entitled "White House Considers Restricting Chinese Researchers Over Espionage Fears....

Heritage Action co-founder Mike Needham to become Sen. Marco Rubio's (R-FL) chief of staff.  Skadden Arps' Greg Craig, who author...

This is from the New York Times: While many hands gripped the sword that undercut the Iran nuclear deal, no one outside the Trump admin...

Here is more from Craig Silverman of BuzzFeed: Earlier this year, leaders from the Marine Corps, the Department of Homeland Security, N...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal's Standards & Ethics team: We should seek quality, balance and variety in the think t...

Trump has made Washington hostile to experts like think tankers. Matthew Walther: "It is almost sad now to think of the millions of...

Several news agencies have identified the name of the apparent informant who monitored the Trump campaign: Stefan Halper. Here is what th...

Here is more from an Atlantic Council press release: The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab ( @DFRLab ) today announced a...

Here is more from ABC News: Signed boxing gloves from Muhammad Ali, documents from the Bill Clinton impeachment and 3,000 boxes of oth...

Here is more from Bloomberg: The founder of one of the most influential pro-Brexit think tanks was suspected of working for the Kremlin...

Tyler Cowen: Are libertarian think tankers smarter ? Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH): Think tanks should be a key component of Global Engagement ...

A new RAND Corporation study warns that artificial intelligence (AI) could lead to nuclear war by 2040. The study, entitled " How Mig...

As philanthropy both in the US and abroad continues to grow, think tanks are increasingly becoming the beneficiaries of that generosity, oft...

Here is what BuzzFeed is reporting about the liberal think tank Center for American Progress (CAP): One of Washington's leading libe...

Following in Bernanke's footsteps, Janet Yellen maintains think tank job at Brookings while getting paid by Wall St. elite.  Paul Man...

A new study has found that more extreme think tanks are more frequently cited in congressional floor speeches, but more moderate think t...

House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) announced this week that he will not seek re-election, meaning that he is in the hunt for a new job. It jus...

Here is more from Politico: President Donald Trump has kept White House visitor logs under wraps after eight years of transparency from...

Daily Caller: Outgoing National Security Advisor McMaster worked for foreign think tank funded by China and Russia; sought Clinton Founda...

This one is for a well-known pharmaceutical-related trade association that wants someone to act as a liaison with the think tank community: ...

Translations from a Chinese government document have surfaced which purportedly show that Chinese state-run newspaper China Daily has recrui...

This is from the conservative think tank R Street Institute: TODAY! Play along! ZUCKERBINGO https://t.co/BaPHbM9f8P #Zuckerberg #fa...

This is from Imogene Dudley , a doctoral candidate at the University of Exeter: Every conference programme needs one of these! #ESSHC20...

Graph : How the income of the 20 largest US think tanks developed over the last few years. Beijing think tank described the White House a...

Foreign governments often demand a lot from the US think tanks they donate to.  In return for hundreds of thousands (and often times million...

Several large US think tanks are likely under federal investigation after it was revealed that US Special Counsel Robert Mueller is scrutini...

Here is more from the Washington Post: While President Trump is systematically rolling back his predecessor’s efforts to combat climate...

2005 flashback : War of Ideas: Why mainstream and liberal foundations and the think tanks they support are losing in the war of ideas in Am...

While incoming National Security Adviser John Bolton has been affiliated with the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) for decades, few know ...

Here is more from the New York Times: There is little doubt that the Defense Department needs help from Silicon Valley’s biggest compa...

Here is more from the South China Morning Post: A veteran economist has been appointed president of China’s top think-tank, the Chines...