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

A majority of people agree that democracy is worth fighting for, but when asked if democracy is at risk, opinions begin to differ. Are we all operating under the same idea of what a democracy truly is ...

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, ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff in a range of United States federal agencies. These staff have ...

In a new essay, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier goes beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might alter how democracy functions. Artificial intelligence will ...

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 ...

Weaponized AI: A New Era of Threats and How We Can Counter It Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation Fellow Dr. Shlomit Wagman lays out a framework to address the threats artificial intelligence poses to ...