Alicia Townsend Friedman Professor at the Harris School of Public Policy, The University of Chicago, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the Ash Center for Democratic ...

Allen Lab Fellow Jeremy McKey reflects on India’s AI Impact Summit, exploring the theme of diffusion and the implications for ...

Amanda Litman, the president and founder of Run for Something, joins co-hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to talk about why she believes democracy needs a generational makeover.

Join the Ash Center for a forward-looking conversation about power, participation, and the enduring leadership of Black women in Massachusetts. Join the Ash Center for a forward-looking conversation ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy and self-government.

Join Harvard Ash Center’s Archon Fung and Stephen Richer every week for Terms of Engagement, a live conversation about the latest developments in American politics. Blending perspectives from both the ...

“Digital Coup: The Attack on Democracy You Didn’t See” offers a detailed account of DOGE’s takeover of USAID and other federal agency’s internal data systems in early 2025.

Roughly 80 percent of the population who do not live in “swing states” lack a clear notion of what they “need to do” to actively support their candidates. Near the close of their speeches at the ...

Last week’s leak of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” drew intense reactions across academia. Critics call it government overreach ...

As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the history of tech hype cycles to warn against the harmful effects of the current ...