Think Tanks

(Nicholas Wapshott is a Reuters columnist but his opinions are his own.) By Nicholas Wapshott May 14 (Reuters) - It has been a bad couple of weeks for conservative social scientists. First a doctoral student ran the numbers on the study by Harvard's...

(Reuters) - It has been a bad couple of weeks for conservative social scientists. First a doctoral student ran the numbers on the study by Harvard's Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff that underpins austerity and deep public spending cuts as a cure for...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. think tank on Tuesday recommended Congress suspend trade benefits for India, in the latest sign of U.S. frustration over Indian policies that block American exports and "free ride" on costly U.S. research to develop new...

WASHINGTON (AP) — A new U.S. strategy for the Arctic region has gotten a lukewarm response from a think tank that says the plan amounts to a "lengthy wish list" with few specifics. The tepid feedback from the Washington-based Arctic Institute comes...

WASHINGTON, May 10 (Reuters) - A Heritage Foundation policy analyst who co-authored a study slamming the U.S. Senate immigration bill, is resigning, the conservative group said on Friday, after revelations he once wrote that Hispanic immigrants had a...

Jason Richwine is a type in American politics. He holds a doctorate from Harvard. He writes studies, appears at conservative conferences in suit and tie, and expounds the same old nonsense about immigrants that we've been hearing since the Know Nothings...

HARRISBURG — Choice and convenience. They are two words Gov. Tom Corbett has used often since February. He says them when talking about his budget proposal to expand beer sales and sell the state-owned liquor store system to fund a four-year grant...

* Rousseff expands Cabinet to 39 members to widen coalition * Social expenditure rose sharply at expense of investment * Economists say tax burden too high at 36 pct of GDP By Anthony Boadle BRASILIA, May 9 (Reuters) - President Dilma Rousseff added a...

By Kevin Yao and Megha Rajagopalan BEIJING, May 8 (Reuters) - President Xi Jinping's crackdown on Chinese government extravagance has emptied top-end restaurants and dented the sale of expensive food and drink, putting downward pressure on the world's...

WASHINGTON — An influential network of some of the country's wealthiest liberal political donors is steering resources to an advocacy group backing President Obama's agenda and to organizations working to pass immigration reform, providing a surge...

WASHINGTON -- For most Americans, Europe is out of sight and out of mind. We figure that the worst of its debt crisis has passed. Italy has a new government. To mute social unrest, some countries are slightly relaxing austerity policies. The European...

The Heritage Foundation, the influential conservative think tank now headed by former U.S. Sen. Jim DeMint, released a report this week that estimated providing legal status to the 11 million undocumented immigrants in the United States would cost...