Think Tanked

Sunday Talk Shows: 4/3/11

Think tankers on the Sunday talk shows:

NBC’s Meet the Press: Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL); Congressman Mike Rogers (R-MI); Marc Morial, National Urban League; Mike Murphy, Republican Strategist; E.J. Dionne, The Washington Post and the Brookings Institution; Doris Kearns Goodwin, Presidential Historian; Daniel Yergin, IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates

And the full line-up:

CBS’s Face the Nation: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

ABC’s This Week: Sen. Charles Schumer (D-NY); Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL); Gen. James Jones, Jr. (Ret.); George Will, ABC News; Torie Clarke, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs; Paul Krugman, The New York Times; David Ignatius, The Washington Post

CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Gen. James Jones (Ret.), former National Security Adviser; Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX), NRSC Chairman; Donna Brazile, Democratic strategist and CNN political contributor; William Bennett, national talk radio host and CNN political contributor

CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: Roger Simon, POLITICO; Dana Milbank, The Washington Post; Debra Saunders, San Francisco Chronicle; Amy Argetsinger, The Washington Post; Sharon Waxman, TheWrap.com

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: Yochi Dreazen, National Journal; Naftali Bendavid, The Wall Street Journal; Greg Ip of The Economist; Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post

Fox News Sunday: Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI); Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL); Roundtable with: Brit Hume, Fox News; Mara Liasson, NPR; Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard; Juan Williams, Fox News

Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Billy Packer, former sportscaster for CBS Sports

NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show: Bob Woodward, The Washington Post; John Heilemann, New York Magazine; Helene Cooper, The New York Times

Sunday Talk Shows: 3/27/11

Think tankers on the Sunday talk shows:

Fox News Sunday: Former Speaker of the House and AEI fellow Newt Gingrich (R-GA); Sen. John McCain (R-AZ), Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT); Roundtable with Brit Hume, Fox News, Nina Easton, Fox News; Bill Kristol, Weekly Standard; Juan Williams, Fox News

NBC's Meet The Press: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton; Secretary of Defense Robert Gates; Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN); Roundtable with Bob Woodward, Washington Post; Ted Koppel, Discovery Channel; Tom Ricks, Center for a New American Security; Savannah Guthrie, NBC

CNN's State Of The Union: Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI); Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to George W. Bush; Michael Hayden, former CIA director; nuclear policy expert Joe Cirincione; former Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin, former White House Budget Director and Brookings fellow Alice Rivlin

And the full line-up:

ABC's This Week: Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld; Sen. Jack Reed (D-RI), Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY); Roundtable with George Will, ABC; former congressman Joe Sestak (D-PA); Jeffrey Goldberg, The Atlantic; Egyptian journalist Mona Eltahawy

CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: Ted Koppel, Discovery Channel; the Libya coverage with Bill Press, “The Bill Press Show”; Jennifer Rubin, Washington Post; Jane Hall, American University

CBS' Face The Nation: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates

CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Sir Howard Stringer, chairman of Sony Corp. and author Ahmed Rashid

PBS' Washington Week: Helene Cooper, New York Times; Doyle McManus, Los Angeles Times; John Dickerson, Slate Magazine; Gloria Borger, CNN

NBC's Chris Matthews Show: Howard Fineman, Huffington Post; Elisabeth Bumiller, New York Times; Helene Cooper, New York Times; Major Garrett, National Journal

Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius.

Sunday Talk Shows: 12/5/10

Think tankers on the Sunday talk shows:

ABC’s This Week: General Wesley Clark, Former NATO Supreme Allied Commander; R. Clarke Cooper, Executive Director of the Log Cabin Republicans; Tammy Schultz, Director of National Security and Joint Warfare at the Marine Corps War College; Lieutenant Colonel Bob Maginnis (Ret.), Senior Fellow of the Family Research Council; Elaine Donnelly, Center for Military Readiness; Zalmay Khalilzad, Former Ambassador to the United Nations and Afghanistan; Zbigniew Brzezinski, Former National Security Adviser; Sakena Yacoobi, Afghan institute of Learning; George Will, ABC News

CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: HBO's Bill Maher; Niall Ferguson of Harvard and the Hoover Institution; Richard Haass of the Council On Foreign Relations; Gillian Tett of the Financial Times

Fox News Sunday: Sen. Kent Conrad, (D-ND); Jeb Hensarling, (R-TX); Newt Gingrich, AEI Senior Fellow, Former Speaker of the House and Fox News Contributor

And the full line-up:

NBC’s Meet the Press: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY); Sen. John Kerry (D-MA); David Brooks, New York Times; Tom Friedman, New York Times; Katty Kay, BBC World News America; Mike Murphy,Republican Strategist

CBS’ Face the Nation: Senator Richard Durbin (D-Illinois); Senator Jon Kyl (R-Arizona); Nancy Cordes, CBS News Capitol Hill Correspondent; Jim VandeHei, Executive Editor of POLITICO

CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT); Sen. Ron Wyden (D-OR); Sen. Richard Lugar (R-IN); Jon Wiener, author, “Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files”

CNN’s Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: Torie Clarke, former Pentagon spokesperson; David Rohde, author, “A Rope and a Prayer”; Kristen Mulvihill, author, “A Rope and a Prayer”; Erica Hill of CBS News

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: John Harwood of CNBC and The New York Times; Doyle McManus of the Los Angeles Times; Yochi Dreazen of National Journal

Bloomberg’s Political Capital with Al Hunt: Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal

NBC’s The Chris Matthews Show: Andrea Mitchell, NBC News; Andrew Sullivan, The Atlantic; John Heilemann, New York Magazine; Susan Davis, National Journal

Washington Watch with Roland Martin: Chairman of the President’s Council of Economic Advisers Austan Goolsbee, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, and Magic and Cookie Johnson

AM Briefing: 9/28/10

Mike O'Hanlon on reasons to be optimistic in Afghanistan (Politico)

Marc Thiessen sees another reason disengagement from Iraq is troublesome (AEI)

Colbert signifies our ironic rot (LA Times)

Did Obama demand something Netanyahu couldn't deliver? (Washington Post)

Obama, your health and gold (National Review)

It's only a recovery if you've got jobs (Politico)

Is the DoJ Voting Section sleeping? (National Review)

AM Briefing: 9/17/10

Beware the double dip (Washington Post) 

The Constitution's birthday (Washington Times)

Appointing a new Japanese foreign minister (AEI)

There's a democratic push in Turkey? (LA Times)

Bloomberg, Kashmir, India, Park51 (National Review)

Is it the end of the American Dream? (Housing Week)

Daybook: 9/17/10

History and Asia: Policy Insights and Legal Perspectives (CSIS) This conference will bring together a wide variety of experts from different disciplines to explore the various historical issues, points of contention, opportunities, and challenges in the region. Key-Note Speech with Jae-jeong Chung, President of Northeast Asian History Foundation

U.S.-China Clean Energy Cooperation (Brookings) Cooperation between the United States and China on clean energy has continued to move forward despite other tensions in the relationship. Seven programs on clean energy that were announced by Presidents Obama and Hu during their 2009 Beijing summit have resulted in significant opportunities for cooperation between the two countries in many aspects of clean energy, including research, technology, manufacturing, regulatory policy and low carbon-development strategies. 

The Upcoming Supreme Court Term and the Future of Economic Liberty (Cato) For many people, owning a business is the very definition of the American dream. But in today's America, that dream is made increasingly difficult by laws and regulations that interfere with entrepreneurs and their right to earn a living providing valuable goods and services through voluntary exchange. The Founding Fathers considered economic liberty to be a fundamental human right, yet the protections established by English law and later American law were largely stripped away by the collectivist political philosophy of Progressive-era judges. What exactly have we lost, and how can it be restored? Can members of the Supreme Court reverse the damage that their predecessors unleashed? Can Congress address these problems effectively or does the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Constitution stand in the way? And what are the prospects that decisions in the next Court term, which begins in October, will advance economic liberty?

Big Citizenship (Center for American Progress)  Two months before the 2008 presidential election, Alan Khazei capped a 25-year career as a social entrepreneur by persuading Barack Obama and John McCain to appear together on national television to agree that national service was good for America. With their backing, he helped frame the Edward M. Kennedy Service Act, which was signed into law within 100 days of Obama's inauguration—an extraordinary example of effectiveness in action. In Big Citizenship, Khazei shares his experiences founding and growing his City Year program, saving AmeriCorps, and creating the new national campaign called ServiceNation, offering inspiration as well as practical advice. He addresses how to balance private and public funding, work with all levels of government, build bipartisan support on even the most contentious issues, attract volunteers, and get young people involved.

AM Briefing: 9/16/10

With Castle's defeat comes the end of moderate Republicanism (Washington Post)

This is what Democrats found in the electoral dark clouds? (Politico)

Chavez's "clownish behavior" is helping consolidate his authoritarianism (LA Times)

More on the "We Miss Bush" meme (National Review)

START now. (Politico)

What the numbers tell Michael Barone (National Review) 

AM Briefing: 9/15/10

If you think this partisanship and gridlock is bad... (Politico)

Thomas Sowell on disarmament (New York Post)

Building a better stimulus (Politico)

Getting rid of DC's private schools will ensure flight to the suburbs (Cato)

Michael Tanner thinks Democrats live on the set of the Mary Tyler Moore Show (National Review)

Israelis do support peace (LA Times)

Getting that energetic government (AEI)

AM Briefing: 9/13/10

Citizens United and disclosure (Washington Post)

The moral lesson of the financial crisis (AEI)

More "Gangster Government" accusations (National Review)

LA and the Politicso f Sanctuary Cities (National Review)

And even more "Gangster Government" accusations (New York Post)

The talk of a second stimulus (Scripps)

Sunday Talk Shows: 9/12/10

Think tankers on the Sunday talk shows:

CNN's GPS with Fareed Zakaria: Robert Baer, former CIA operative; author, Middle East specialist; Richard Falkenrath, former deputy homeland security advisor to President George W. Bush; Reuel Marc Gerecht, former CIA operative and Senior Fellow at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies; Fawaz Gerges, professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science; Peter Orzag, former director of the Office of Management and Budget.

Fox News Sunday: Austan Goolsbee Chair of the White House Council of Economic Advisers; former Speaker of the House and American Enterprise Senior Fellow Newt Gingrich.

And the full line-up:

NBC's Meet the Press: David Axelrod, Senior White House Adviser; Rudy Giuliani, Fmr. Mayor of New York City; Dee Dee Myers, Fmr. Clinton White House Press Secretary; Reza Aslan, Contributing Editor, The Daily Beast; Mike Murphy, Republican Strategist; Ron Brownstein, Political Director, Atlantic Media.

ABC's This Week: Austan Goolsbee, White House Council of Economic Advisers; Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Cordoba Initiative; Eboo Patel, Interfaith Youth Core; Irshad Manji, New York University's School of Public Service; Reverend Richard Cizik, The New Evangelical Partnership for the Common Good; Arianna Huffington, The Huffington Post; Kate Zernike, The New York Times; Jonathan Karl, ABC News; George Will, ABC News.

CBS' Face the Nation: Representative John Boehner (R-Ohio); Representative Keith Ellison (D-Minnesota); Tom Kean, Co-Chairman 9/11 Commission. 

CNN's State of the Union with Candy Crowley: Dick Armey, (R) Former House Majority Leader; Trent Lott, (R) Former Senate Majority Leader.

CNN's Reliable Sources with Howard Kurtz: Lauren Ashburn, Ashburn Media Company; David Frum, FrumForum.com; David Corn, Mother Jones; Emily Bell, Columbia University; David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun; Tom Leonard, The Daily Mail; David Zurawik, Baltimore Sun; Marisa Guthrie, Broadcasting & Cable; Andrew Heyward, former president, CBS News.

Washington Week with Gwen Ifill and National Journal: Jackie Calmes, The New York Times; David Wessel, The Wall Street Journal; Karen Tumulty, The Washington Post; Michael Duffy, TIME Magazine.

NBC's The Chris Matthews Show: Dan Rather, HDNet Global Correspondent; Andrea Mitchell, NBC News Chief Foreign Affairs Correspondent; Katty Kay, BBC Washington Correspondent; and David Ignatius, Washington Post Columnist.

Bloomberg's Political Capital with Al Hunt: Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee Chairman Chris Van Hollen.