The interdisciplinary character of the upcoming Peopling Politics symposium, Bringing the People Back In, reflects this ...

“Digital Coup: The Attack on Democracy You Didn’t See” offers a detailed account of DOGE’s takeover of USAID and other federal agency’s internal data systems in early 2025.

Join the Ash Center for a forward-looking conversation about power, participation, and the enduring leadership of Black women in Massachusetts. Join the Ash Center for a forward-looking conversation ...

Archon Fung and Stephen Richer invite democracy and civil rights advocate Cornell William Brooks to assess the evolution of America’s historical narrative and what implications history has on our ...

Allen Lab Researcher David Riveros Garcia draws on his experience building civic technology to fight corruption in Paraguay to make the case that effective civic technology must include power and ...

Amy Besaw Medford is the Senior Program Director for the Project on Indigenous Governance and Development at the Harvard Kennedy School. The Project’s mission is to increase opportunities for ...

Ensuring public opinion and policy preferences are reflected in policy outcomes is essential to a functional democracy. A growing ecosystem of deliberative technologies aims to improve the ...

Domestic violence is one of the most pervasive threats to women’s human security in the United States, yet it remains among the least visible. It cuts across age, income, race, and education, with one ...

Economists and policy analysts broadly agree that more housing needs to be built in order to reduce costs in America’s most expensive cities. Using a novel survey of mayors of mid-sized and large ...

Hable Fitsum is a junior at Harvard College studying Government with a secondary in Economics, originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She is a Research Assistant with the Ash Center’s Information in the ...

In a new essay, The Case for Building an AmeriCorps Alumni Leadership Network, Allen Lab Policy Fellow Sonali Nijhawan argues that the 1.4 million Americans who have completed national service ...

Revati Vaidya is a Master in Public Administration candidate at Harvard Kennedy School and a Research Assistant with the Ash Center’s Informed Public Project. She is interested in how people access, ...