Co-hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer look back at the last five months of headlines as they celebrate the twentieth ...

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 ...

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

You’re invited to the third session of The Breakdown, a monthly webinar series with Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky. Join Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky for the third session of The Breakdown ...

Anchorage, Alaska, is pioneering mobile voting, allowing voters to cast ballots for municipal elections from their phones. If successful, Anchorage could offer a blueprint for the future of voting ...

You’re invited to join Pablo Montagnes, Associate Professor of Data & Decision Sciences and Political Science at Emory University, for an American Politics Speaker Series discussion sponsored by the ...

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 ...

Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation Fellow Dr. Shlomit Wagman lays out a framework to address the threats artificial intelligence poses to global security and democratic institutions. Artificial ...

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 ...

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff in a range of United States federal agencies. These staff have ...

Alison Stanger argues that the question facing Americans isn’t whether government needs modernization – it’s whether they’re willing to sacrifice democracy in pursuit of Musk’s version of efficiency.