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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.
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.
July 13, 2021
Kate Aronoff
Centrist Think Tanks Are Raking In Exxon Cash
An annual ExxonMobil report shows the company routinely giving six-figure sums to Brookings, Center for Strategic and International Studies, and similar institutions.
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.
March 9, 2017
Brian Beutler
This is why Republicans are rushing Trumpcare through Congress without a CBO score.
June 10, 2014
Danny Vinik
Fear of a Non-White Nation
The GOP's problem with Hispanics goes much deeper than immigration reform
April 6, 2012
Gary Burtless
The New Jobs Report: Blah
March 28, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
The Justices Need Economics 101
March 9, 2012
Jonathan Cohn
New Jobs Report: Can We Say “Recovery” Yet?
August 15, 2011
Mark Muro, Kenan Fikri
Obama’s Bus Tour: Don’t Forget ‘Bottom-Up’ Job Creation
June 6, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
The Diamond Travesty, Continued
August 9, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
Jobs to Fill, Nobody to Fill Them?
February 26, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
A Quick Reconciliation Thought
February 10, 2010
Jonathan Cohn
This Is Why They Invented Reconciliation
January 8, 2010
Bradford Plumer
Look At All Those $20 Bills Just Lying Around...

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