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 ...

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

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, ...

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

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 ...

Harvard’s hub for research and teaching on democracy The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic ...

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 ...

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 ...