From rank-choice voting to reconciliation, American democracy is headline news. Let’s talk about it.

This report argues that public options for AI, along with utility-style regulation, will strengthen national security by ...

On the second episode of Terms of Engagement, recorded on July 22, 2025. Archon Fung and Stephen Richer will answer the ...

Mary conducts research aimed at enhancing the availability, accessibility, and usefulness of information essential to informed decision-making in our roles as consumers, parents, community members, ...

Harvard students are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for an open house reception to ...

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 ...

Despite these unprecedented investments in mobilizing voters, overall trust in electoral health, democratic institutions, voter satisfaction, and electoral engagement have significantly declined. What ...

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 ...

From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard ...

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 ...

During an opening panel at an Ash Center symposium on the future of the Electoral College, scholars examined the history behind how the US adopted its peculiar centuries-old system of choosing ...

The Electoral College and Our Broken Presidential Election System 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 ...