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

A public interest and scholarly project to document protests and demonstrations in the United States.

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 ...

Renovating our democratic institutions for the 21st century. The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and ...

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 ...

Virtual 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm EDT This event is online only and registration is required. A recording will be made available after the event’s conclusion. The information collected in the registration ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

From misinformation to AI panic, experts joined the Allen Lab’s GETTING-Plurality event to discuss the threats the burgeoning technology poses to democracy. This image was created by AI via Adobe ...

In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today. Protestors ...

In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to discuss how civil society can resist democratic backsliding through social ...