In its first 100 days, the Trump administration has taken sweeping, aggressive action against federal employees, impacting ...

Mary W. Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project. Graham’s research focuses on the politics of public disclosure, information strategies to improve public health and safety, new trends in ...

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 ...

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 ...

In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today. Protestors ...

In this paper, Mary W. Graham, co-director of the Center’s Transparency Policy Project, explores the unintended information inequities that weaken the nation’s vital health and safety alerts. By ...

In a new essay, Harvard Kennedy School’s Bruce Schneier goes beyond AI generated disinformation to detail other novel ways in which AI might alter how democracy functions. Artificial intelligence will ...

In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to discuss how civil society can resist democratic backsliding through social ...

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 ...

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 support their candidates. Near the close of their speeches at the ...

Despite these unprecedented investments in mobilizing voters, overall trust in electoral health, democratic institutions, voter satisfaction, and electoral engagement have significantly declined. What ...

With an octogenarian currently ensconced in the White House and a likely challenger in his 70s hoping to supplant him, the generational divide between political leaders and the electorate couldn’t be ...