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August 7, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Why Project 2025 Leader Suddenly Delayed His Book Release
Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and lead architect of Project 2025, is now pushing back his book release.
March 15, 2024
Casey Michel
How Viktor Orbán Conquered the Heritage Foundation
Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.
September 12, 2023
Amy Westervelt
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Geoff Dembicki
Meet the Shadowy Global Network of Right-Wing Think Tanks
For decades, the think tanks associated with the little-known Atlas Network have pushed to criminalize climate protest around the world.
May 12, 2023
Casey Michel
Biden Is Letting Think Tanks and Dodgy Foreign Funders Get Cozy Again
One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.
October 17, 2022
Magazine
Jordan Michael Smith
The Neocons Are Losing. Why Aren’t We Happy?
A new isolationist strain is gaining dominance in the GOP. The noninterventionist part is fine. But then there’s the admiration for Putin, the hatred of alliances, the hostility to NATO ...
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June 27, 2022
Casey Michel
Congress Takes Aim at Think Tanks and Their Corrupt Money
A new piece of bipartisan legislation seeks to purge This Town of foreign influence peddling—all of it.
October 4, 2021
Edward Graham
Think Tankers Are Skirting Congress’s New Conflict of Interest Rules
House Democrats recently strengthened the “truth in testimony” rule for witnesses at committee hearings, but many are still exploiting loopholes to avoid revealing their affiliations and funding sources.
March 6, 2021
Alex Shephard
David Brooks and the Endless Grift of the Conservative Commentariat
Conservative columnists have been raking in money from big business for decades.
September 11, 2019
Alex Pareene
ThinkProgress Was Always Doomed
Independent journalism fits uncomfortably with mainstream think tank politics.
September 15, 2017
John B. Judis
The Credible Think Tank Is Dead
The ousting of a Google critic at the New America Foundation shows how donors have corrupted Washington's policy and research institutes.
May 8, 2017
Clio Chang
Cato’s 40th anniversary party was everything you could have dreamed and more.
March 10, 2017
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Laura Reston
Where Trump Gets His Fuzzy Border Math
Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown.
May 10, 2013
Brooke Williams
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Ken Silverstein
Meet the Think Tank Scholars who are also Beltway Lobbyists
Why D.C.'s policy shops need to be transparent about who else is paying their scholars
February 20, 2013
Neera Tanden
Think That Think Tanks Can Be Bought? Not So Fast.
The Center for American Progress takes issue with recent TNR piece
February 19, 2013
Ken Silverstein
The Great Think-Tank Bubble
Think tank salaries are looking more and more like lobbyist salaries. That's no surprise.
February 12, 2013
Ken Silverstein
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Brooke Williams
Chuck Hagel's Think Tank, Its Donors, and Intellectual Independence
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