Scroll through the boxes at right to see think tanks of the following persuasions:

• Centrist
• Conservative
• Liberal/Progressive
• Libertarian/Objectivist

Think tanks are non-profit organizations created to research and promote public policy, often with a focus on a particular issue or espousing a particular political persuasion.  Think tanks employ lots of Ph.D.s who conduct resarch and write papers with the aim of influencing legislation.  They can be excellent sources of information as long as you keep in mind their purpose or agenda.

• American Consumer Institute
• Aspen Institute
• Brookings Institute
• Committee for Economic Development
• CFED
• The Group of 30
• information Technology and Innovation Foundation
• New America Foundation
• RAND Corporation
• Reform Institute
• Resources for the Future
• Urban Institute
• Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars

• American Enterprise Institute
• Center for Immigration Studies
• Claremont Institute
• Heritage Foundation
• Hoover Institution
• Hudson Institute
• Manhattan institute
• Pacific Research Institute

• Center for American Progress
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• The Century Foundation
• Commonwealth Fund
• Demos
• Drum Major Institute
• Economic Policy Institute
• Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies
• Progressive Policy Institute
• Roosevelt institution

• Ayn Rand Institute
• Cato Institute
• Competitive enterprise Institute
• Foundation for Economic Education
• Foundation for Rational Economics and Education
• Goldwater institute
• Heartland Institute
• Independent Institute
• James Madison Institute
• Ludwig von Mises Institute
• Mercatus Center
• Progress and Freedom Foundation
• Reason Foundation