On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Harvard Law School’s Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, joined Archon ...

Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as an Ash Center fellow in May 2025. But his journey to the Kennedy ...

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 ...

I received my bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the Faculty of Architecture at Vienna University of Technology, and completed my Ph.D. in 2018 at the Faculty of Architecture, Yıldız Technical ...

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 ...

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?

Elon Musk’s role as the head of the Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE, is on the surface a dramatic effort to overhaul the inefficiencies of federal bureaucracy. But beneath 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 ...

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’ ...

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 ...