At the Ash Center, Lawrence Lessig, Matthew Seligman, and Ian Bassin discuss the looming threats to our next presidential ...

Please join the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at the Ash Center’s Allen Lab and Connection Science at MIT Media Lab for a workshop series event focused on “AI and the 2024 Elections”.

A public interest and scholarly project to document protests and demonstrations in the United States. The Crowd Counting Consortium (CCC), a joint project of Harvard Kennedy School and the University ...

Ian Bassin, Lawrence Lessig, and Matt Seligman discuss possible efforts to subvert the 2024 presidential election and how we can stop them. Even in the fast and loose world of the Trump White House, ...

DuVernay’s latest film ‘Origin’ is a powerful adaptation of Isabel Wilkerson’s book ‘Caste’, taking a broad look at underlying systems of social hierarchies. It draws connections between race in the ...

Through our books, case studies, journal articles, papers, and surveys, the Ash Center is home to some of the world’s most advanced research and publications on issues related to democratic governance ...

Nonviolent resistance movements defended democratic values and institutions throughout the 20th century and into the 21st. However, the trend seems to have shifted. Over the past decade, authoritarian ...

Protest is the bedrock of democracy. But why do people take to the streets, and how do protestors achieve change? At the Ash Center, we’re working to answer these questions. From the Boston Tea Party ...

At an Ash Center symposium on Electoral College reform, Congressman Jamie Raskin makes the case that the US should finally ...

During an opening panel at an Ash Center symposium on the future of the Electoral College, scholars examined the history behind how the US adopted its peculiar centuries-old system of choosing ...

Please join the GETTING-Plurality Research Network at the Ash Center’s Allen Lab and Connection Science at MIT Media Lab for a workshop series event focused on ...

Nick Chedli Carter is the Director of Democracy Initiatives at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He collaborates with a diverse range of scholars and ...