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 ...

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

Five Years Later, Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera Bid Farewell to Untying Knots. Over the past five years, Untying Knots has served as a vital platform for ...

In testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier sounded ...

A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary. On July 4, 2026, America will celebrate the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of In ...

The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), a joint project of Harvard Kennedy School and the University of Connecticut, collects publicly available data on political crowds reported in the United States, ...

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation develops 21st-century governance innovations to support healthy democracies.

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 ...

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 ...

Nonviolent resistance movements defended democratic values and institutions throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. However, the trend seems to have shifted. Over the past decade, authoritarian ...

Likely use cases for AI polling AI polling will be irresistible to campaigns, and to the media. But research is already revealing when and where this tool will fail. While AI polling will always have ...