New York Times Opinion Columnist Michelle Goldberg joins Stephen Richer and Archon Fung to discuss “South Park” and the role ...

Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as a recipient of the Roy and Lila Ash Scholarship in Democracy in May ...

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 ...

Commentary Jun 7, 2024 Using AI for Political Polling Will AI-assisted polls soon replace more traditional techniques?

Feature Aug 6, 2024 Political Violence in America: Causes, Consequences, and Countermeasures In the wake of this most recent incident, the Ash Center convened a panel of experts to discuss Americans’ ...

Additional Resource Mar 31, 2025 Understanding DOGE and Your Data Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff ...