This is a list of sources for U.S. political and social information that I've accumulated over the years that I wanted to share.
It's not a huge list but each source is itself like an entry to even more sources of information. Acquiring good sources of information grows exponentially.
Feel free to post suggestions.
Disclaimer:
- List is in no particular order
- Not meant to be official or authoritative in any way
- Nothing is rigid, I personally add and remove sources fairly frequently
- Some sources are heavily biased (both left and right) but almost all are research and information-based
- List skews slightly liberal, skews heavily male, and is almost exclusively white
- In need of more P.O.C. and/or conservative sources
ORGANIZATIONS:
Foreign Affairs
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Foreign Affairs is an American magazine of international relations and U.S. foreign policy published by the Council on Foreign Relations. Considered one of America's most influential foreign policy magazines.
Center For Human Rights And Global Justice
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The Center for Human Rights and Global Justice (CHRGJ) is the hub of human rights study at New York University School of Law. Having built a reputation for our academic and clinical work in an array of human rights subjects – including counter-terrorism; corporate abuses; caste discrimination; gender-based violence; economic, social, and cultural rights; and extrajudicial executions.
Just Security
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Just Security is an online forum for the rigorous analysis of U.S. national security law and policy. We aim to promote principled and pragmatic solutions to national security problems that decision-makers face. Just Security is based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law.
Lawfare
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The web's leading multimedia resource on national security law, published in cooperation with the Brookings Institution.
RAND Corporation
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RAND Corporation is an American nonprofit global policy think tank originally formed by Douglas Aircraft Company to offer research and analysis to the United States Armed Forces. It is financed by the U.S. government and private endowment, corporations including the health care industry, universities, and private individuals.
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
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CSIS conducts policy studies and strategic analyses of political, economic and security issues throughout the world, with a specific focus on issues concerning international relations, trade, technology, finance, energy and geostrategy.
In the University of Pennsylvania's 2013 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, CSIS is ranked the number one think tank in the world for "Top Defense and National Security Think Tanks" and was also ranked as the 4th best think tank for "Think Tanks with the Most Innovative Policy Ideas/Proposals".
Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting (FAIR)
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FAIR is a progressive media criticism organization based in New York City. The organization was founded in 1986 by Jeff Cohen and Martin A. Lee. FAIR describes itself as "the national media watch group". The organization has been described as both progressive and leaning left.
UN Human Rights Office
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The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is a United Nations agency that works to promote and protect the human rights that are guaranteed under international law and stipulated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948.
Amnesty International (USA Division)
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Amnesty International is a global movement of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights. Currently the world's largest grassroots human rights organization, we investigate and expose abuses, educate and mobilize the public, and help transform societies to create a safer, more just world.
Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC)
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The SPLC is an American nonprofit legal advocacy organization specializing in civil rights and public interest litigation. It is noted for its legal victories against white supremacist groups, its classification of hate groups and other extremist organizations, its legal representation for victims of hate groups, and its educational programs that promote tolerance.
American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
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The ACLU is a nonpartisan, non-profit, organization whose stated mission is "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed to every person in this country by the Constitution and laws of the United States." It works through litigation, lobbying, and community empowerment.
Stanford Center on Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law (CDDRL)
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The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law (CDDRL) at Stanford University has collaborated widely with academics, policymakers and practitioners around the world to advance knowledge about the conditions for and interactions among democracy, broad-based economic development, human rights, and the rule of law.
The mission of CDDRL is to understand how countries can overcome poverty, instability, and abusive rule to become prosperous, just, democratic, and well-governed states.
Brookings Institution
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The Brookings Institution conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in economics, metropolitan policy, governance, foreign policy, and global economy and development. Its stated mission is to "provide innovative and practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: strengthen American democracy; foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and secure a more open, safe, prosperous, and cooperative international system."
In the University of Pennsylvania's 2015 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, Brookings was named "Think Tank of the Year."
New America
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New America is a non-partisan think tank in the United States. It focuses on a range of public policy issues, including national security studies, technology, asset building, health, gender, energy, education, and the economy.
International Centre for Counter-Terrorism (ICCT)
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The ICCT is an independent organization for the creation, collation and dissemination of information and skills relating to the legal and human rights aspects of counter-terrorism. ICCT's work focuses on preventing and countering the violent extremism that leads to terrorism, and on the human rights and legal aspects of counter-terrorism measures.
Center For A New American Security (CNAS)
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The CNAS specializes in the United States' national security issues. CNAS's stated mission is to "develop strong, pragmatic and principled national security and defense policies that promote and protect American interests and values." CNAS focuses on terrorism and irregular warfare, the future of the U.S. military, the emergence of Asia as a global power center, and the national security implications of natural resource consumption.
Council on Foreign Relations (CFR)
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The CFR is a nonprofit, publisher, and think tank specializing in U.S. foreign policy and international affairs. Its membership has included senior politicians, more than a dozen secretaries of state, CIA directors, bankers, lawyers, professors, and senior media figures. The CFR promotes globalization, free trade, reducing financial regulations on transnational corporations, and economic consolidation into regional blocs such as NAFTA or the European Union, and develops policy recommendations that reflect these goals.
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
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The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace is a foreign-policy think tank that describes itself as being dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States. Founded in 1910 by Andrew Carnegie, its work is not formally associated with any political party.
In the University of Pennsylvania's 2015 Global Go To Think Tanks Report, Carnegie is ranked the third most influential think tank in the world.
Liberty Fund
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Liberty Fund, Inc. is a nonprofit foundation headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA which promulgates the libertarian views of its founder through publishing, conferences, and educational resources. The operating mandate of the Liberty Fund was set forth in an unpublished memo written by its founder, Pierre F. Goodrich "to encourage the study of the ideal of a society of free and responsible individuals."
Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE)
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The Peterson Institute for International Economics is a private and non-profit think tank focused on international economics, based in Washington, D.C.
According to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, Peterson is number 20 in the "Top Think Tanks Worldwide" and number 13 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States".
Hoover Institution
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The Hoover Institution is an American public policy think tank and research institution located at Stanford University in California. Its official name is the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace.
According to the 2015 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report, Hoover is #19 in the "Top Think Tanks in the United States".
Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
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The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs is an interdisciplinary research center at Brown University. Its mission is to "promote a just and peaceful world through research, teaching, and public engagement." Located on the University's campus in Providence, RI, USA, the Institute's research focuses on three main areas: development, security, and governance.
Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI)
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The Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies is a Stanford University research and teaching organization devoted to understanding international and cross-border policies, problems and institutions.
The faculty's research and teaching focus on a variety of issues, including governance, domestic and international health policy, migration, development, and security.
ACADEMICS & EXPERTS:
R. Nicholas Burns
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Professor of Practice of Diplomacy and International Relations at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government
Member of Secretary of State John Kerry's Foreign Affairs Policy Board
Norman Ornstein
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Resident Scholar at American Enterprise Institute
Contributing editor and columnist for National Journal and The Atlantic
Tom Nichols
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Professor of National Security Affairs in the National Security Decision Making Departmentat U.S. Naval War College
Personal staff for defense and security affairs in the United States Senate to Senator John Heinz
Joff Colgan
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Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University
Elizabeth Saunders
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Assistant Professor of Political Science and International Affairs in the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University
Jeffrey Lewis
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Director of the East Asia Nonproliferation Program in the Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey University
Former Director of the Nuclear Strategy and Nonproliferation Initiative at the New America Foundation
Daniel Nexon
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Professor in the Government and School of Foreign Service department at Georgetown University
Former U.S. Department of Defense as a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow
Paul Musgrave
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Assistant Professor of Political Science at University of Massachusetts Amherst
Josh Chafetz
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Professor of Law at Cornell University
Doctorate in Politics from Oxford University
Eliot A. Cohen
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Professor of Strategic Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies
Former Counselor of the U.S. Department of State
Kori Schake
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Research Fellow at Hoover Institution
Formerly served in White House National Security Council, Department of Defense, and Department of State
Brendan Nyhan
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Professor in the Department of Government at Dartmouth College
Francis Fukuyama
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Director of Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law.
Former member of Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State
Anne-Marie Slaughter
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President and CEO of New America
Professor of Politics and International Affairs at Princeton University
Former Director of Policy Planning for the United States Department of State
Erik Voeten
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Professor of Geopolitics and Justice in World Affairs at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Susan Rice
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Former U.S. National Security Advisor
Former U.S. Diplomat
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations
John Schindler
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Former National Security Agency analyst and counterintelligence officer.
National Security columnist for the New York Observer
Colin Kahl
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Associate Professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service
Former Deputy Assistant to President Obama and National Security Advisor to Vice President Biden
Conrad Hackett
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Associate Director of research and senior demographer at Pew Research Center
Alan B. Krueger
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Professor of Economics and Public Affairs at Princeton University
Former Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy and Chief Economist of the U.S. Department of the Treasury
Former Chairman of President Obama's Council of Economic Advisers
Claire L. Adida
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Associate Professor in the department of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego
Colin P. Clarke
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Political scientist at the RAND Corporation
Associate Fellow at the International Center for Counter-Terrorism
Van Jackson
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Associate Professor in the College of Security Studies at the Daniel K. Inouye Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies
Consultant for the National Intelligence Council, State Department Office of Policy Planning, and National Security Council
Ryan Goodman
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Professor of Law at New York University School of Law
Former special counsel to the general counsel of the Department of Defense
Margaret L. Satterthwaite
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Professor of Clinical Law and director of the Global Justice Clinic at NYU Law
Faculty director of the Robert L. Bernstein Institute for Human Rights
Stephen Walt
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Professor of International Affairs, Harvard Kennedy School
JOURNALISTS & COMMENTATORS:
Stephen Hayes - Editor-In-Chief, The Weekly Standard
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Jamelle Bouie - Chief Political Correspondent, Slate
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Susan Hennessey - Managing Editor, Lawfare
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Bill Kristol - Editor, The Weekly Standard
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David Frum - Senior Editor, The Atlantic
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Rick Wilson - Republican political strategist
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Julia Ioffe - Staff Writer, The Atlantic
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Rosa Brooks - Columnist, Foreign Policy
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David Sanger - National Security Correspondent, New York Times
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David Rothkopf - Editor, Foreign Policy
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Sean McElwee - Political Analyst, Demos Action
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Philip Gourevitch - Staff Writer, The New Yorker
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