At an Ash Center symposium on Electoral College reform, Congressman Jamie Raskin makes the case that the US should finally ...

Ian Bassin, Lawrence Lessig, and Matt Seligman discuss possible efforts to subvert the 2024 presidential election and how we can stop them. Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, ...

You’re invited to a conversation between Oscar-nominated filmmaker and screenwriter Ava DuVernay and Professor Khalil Gibran Muhammad on April 24 at 7:00-8:00PM ET at the Harvard Kennedy School.

During an opening panel at an Ash Center symposium on the future of the Electoral College, scholars examined the history behind how the US adopted its peculiar centuries-old system of choosing ...

DuVernay’s latest film ‘Origin’ is a powerful adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book ‘Caste’, taking a broad look at underlying systems of social hierarchies. It draws connections between race in the ...

Join the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop with Glen Weyl as he discusses Plurality: The Future of Collaborative Technology and Democracy, an open, git-based collaborative book project that ...

In just a few days time, on April 19, India begins its parliamentary elections. With nearly a billion eligible voters, India’s elections are often described as the world’s largest democratic exercise ...

The Communiqué, the Ash Center’s bi-annual magazine, is a chronicle of the Center’s latest research and news. Dear friends and colleagues, Welcome to the first-ever digital-only issue of the Ash ...

This webinar is part of the Carr Center’s Towards Life 3.0 series. Towards Life 3.0: Ethics and Technology in the 21st Century is a talk series organized and facilitated by Dr. Mathias Risse, Director ...

Protest is the bedrock of democracy. But why do people take to the streets, and how do protestors achieve change? At the Ash Center, we’re working to answer these questions. From the Boston Tea Party ...