His funding freeze play was supposed to be part of a well-planned, shock-and-awe takeover. The slapdash result suggests that the minds behind MAGA 2.0 are still a slopcore mess.

Her malfeasances may not be the most egregious, but they should provoke serious reform. No wonder Washington’s influence peddlers are circling the wagons.

Kevin Roberts, president of the Heritage Foundation and lead architect of Project 2025, is now pushing back his book release.

Once the redoubt of Reaganism, the think tank has taken to promoting Trump’s favorite strongman.

For decades, the think tanks associated with the little-known Atlas Network have pushed to criminalize climate protest around the world.

One of the only good transparency innovations of the Trump era has come to a quiet end.

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 ...

A new piece of bipartisan legislation seeks to purge This Town of foreign influence peddling—all of it.

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.

Conservative columnists have been raking in money from big business for decades.

Independent journalism fits uncomfortably with mainstream think tank politics.

The ousting of a Google critic at the New America Foundation shows how donors have corrupted Washington's policy and research institutes.

Meet the far-right "think tank" working to legitimize the immigration crackdown.

Why D.C.'s policy shops need to be transparent about who else is paying their scholars

The Center for American Progress takes issue with recent TNR piece

Think tank salaries are looking more and more like lobbyist salaries. That's no surprise.