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

Five Years Later, Erica Licht and Nikhil Raghuveera Bid Farewell to Untying Knots. Over the past five years, Untying Knots ...

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

A collection of must-reads curated by Ash Center’s Reimagining Democracy team. As summer unfolds, the Reimagining Democracy ...

Anyone who is a fan of a professional sports team in the United States understands the strong bond many Americans have with ...

The official start of Summer is almost here, and Stephen Richer, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy and former ...

Publicly available data on political crowds in the United States, including marches, protests, demonstrations, riots, and other actions.

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

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

Hype’s Harmful Effects Are Not Easily Reversed Photo by Matt Palmer, Unsplash While critics of any technology bubble may feel vindicated by seeing it pop — and when stock markets and the broader world ...

Artificial intelligence will change so many aspects of society, largely in ways that we cannot conceive of yet. Democracy, and the systems of governance that surround it, will be no exception. In this ...

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the ...