Anyone who is a fan of a professional sports team in the United States understands the strong bond many Americans have with ...

A collection of must-reads curated by Ash Center’s Reimagining Democracy team. As summer unfolds, the Reimagining Democracy ...

The official start of Summer is almost here, and Stephen Richer, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy and former ...

Student Opportunities Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Student Leads. Purpose and Goals: This initiative aims to uplift AAPI leaders and organizations working to promote the Ash Center’s ...

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The Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development’s Honoring Nations program is thrilled to announce the selection ...

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the ...

Commentary Nov 6, 2023. Ten Ways AI Will Change Democracy. In a new essay, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier goes beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might ...

Research Workstreams. The lab currently supports four key research workstreams: New Political Economy: Develop exemplary policies in support of a new paradigm in political economy that prioritizes ...

Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed ...

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath the ...