Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as an Ash Center fellow in May 2025. But his journey to the Kennedy ...

Jon is author of CITIZENS: Why the Key to Fixing Everything is All of Us, and co-founder of the New Citizen Project, a book and company committed to shifting the dominant story of the individual in ...

Meet the faculty, staff, and fellows working toward more equal, inclusive, multiracial, and multiethnic democracy and self-government ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-government ...

Additional Resource Nov 20, 2024 Watching the Generative AI Hype Bubble Deflate As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the ...

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 ...

Commentary Oct 29, 2024 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Cambridge, MA – A team of Harvard Project researchers today released the preliminary results of its study of the impact of the COVID‐19 crisis on the economies and governments of the country’s 574 ...

Commentary Oct 12, 2023 Who’s accountable for AI usage in digital campaign ads? Right now, no one. In a new essay, Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders argue that AI is poised to dramatically ramp up ...