Think Tank Watch

Think tanks in Washington, DC are raking in hundreds of millions of dollars from an increasing Pentagon budget, according to a new report f...

Here is a description from The Economist on war games that have recently taken place at the think tank RAND Corporation: When conducting...

COVID-19's effect on think tanks in ten headlines, via On Think Tanks. Devin Nunes wants to know if Brookings was involved in develo...

Here is more from the Washington Post: A Singaporean man pleaded guilty in Washington on Friday to acting as an unregistered agent of t...

The grantmaking foundation Open Philanthropy has only been around for several years but it has already given millions of dollars to more th...

Lee Seong-hyon, Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at the Sejong Institute, has a new piece on China's think tanks.  Here are s...

US spy drone seen over South China Sea headed for Taiwan, says Chinese think tank. Washington Redskins should be renamed Washington Thin...

Here is more from Asian News International: After several reports of the Chinese government torturing its ethnic minority community sur...

While Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has not officially announced his intention to run for president in 2024, there is much speculation that ...

Former Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA) announced she will step down as President and CEO of the Wilson Center when her contract expires in February...

Here is more from the Wall Street Journal: U.S. and U.K. government officials said a prominent state-backed Russian hacking group is re...

The Daily Mail has published some adaptations from a forthcoming book by Clive Hamilton and Mareike Ohlberg entitled "Hidden Hand: Exp...

Here is more from the Washington Free Beacon: A former Chinese official has donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to a prominent D.C...

Investigative journalist Eli Clifton has penned a new piece on pay for play at the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation.  Here are s...

Here is more from The Intercept: In the run-up to the 2020 election, former Vice President Joe Biden’s campaign is putting together a f...

Think tanks from 39 countries denounce Hong Kong security law.  Independent think tanks in China that once reported on the economy have b...

The Prospect recently wrote about how Joe Biden's foreign policy team got rich, and it just so happens that most of the people mentione...

Today the US's Small Business Administration (SBA) released information on nearly 700,000 loans issued as part of the $660 billion Payr...

Here is more from Reuters: A Russian court jailed a Russian think-tank expert specializing in military affairs to seven years on Thursd...

Senior Trump economic adviser Kevin Hassett will return to his posts as Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution and VP/Man...

The nonpartisan Fatcheck.org, a project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania, recently wrote a piece fact...

According to a 2017 study by three New York University scholars, having more nonprofits (including think tanks) in a community is correlate...

Here is a statement from New America's Open Technology Institute (OTI): Last week, leadership at Facebook refused to take down a pos...

It it possible that think tanks that accept foreign funds may soon need to file as foreign agents under the Foreign Agents Registration Act ...

This is from the opening of a new piece on Brookings Institution scholar and former Trump Administration official Fiona Hill that was penne...

American Institute for Economic Research (AIER) accused of "pushing the thus-far-unfounded claim that SARS-CoV-2 originated in a Chin...

Here is more from Foreign Lobby Report: A Washington nonprofit that describes itself as an “independent research institute” has register...

Eli Clifton has a new piece on Taiwan's funding of US think tanks entitled "T aiwan Funding of Think Tanks: Omnipresent and Rarel...

The New York Times (NYT) recently had a piece on who presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden is turning to for advice on the ...

Here is more from CNN: Twitter announced Thursday that it had shut down more than 170,000 accounts tied to the Chinese government. Exp...

It is a good time to be a think tank focusing on police reform. Last year, the New York-based Center for Policing Equity (CPE) said it wo...

It has recently been reported that the United Kingdom (UK) is lobbying aggressively to form an alliance of ten democracies with the goal of...

While many think tanks have lost significant funding revenue amid the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent economic downturn, some policy sho...

Think tank scholars attended Mike Pompeo's "Madison dinners."  Absent influencers?  Women in European think tanks.  Middl...

Here is more from Forbes: A few days ago, the cash-strapped non-partisan Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments (CSBA) , a “prem...