In a recent article for The Boston Globe, Lawrence Lessig breaks down Equal Citizens' argument around Maine's 2024 ballot measure on campaign finance reform. Read more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4vU6Hqt

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A new paper explores practical mechanisms for improving the relationship between election officials and news media to increase public confidence in the electoral process. Learn more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4uh2ICU

David Weil, Visiting Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School and Co-Director of the Program on Democracy and the Informed Public at the Ash Center, comments on the evolution of the Department of Labor under the Trump administration. https://bit.ly/3OQQCRH

Kathryn Sikkink, Ryan Family Professor of Human Rights Policy at Harvard Kennedy School, and co-authors share new research on emerging global trends in transitional justice. "Transitional justice is still central to safeguarding democracy." https://bit.ly/4csT6if

A new report summarizes key insights from the Nonviolent Action Lab’s December 2025 convening on how artificial intelligence can empower pro-democracy movements. Learn more here ⤵️ https://ash.harvard.edu/resources/ai-for-democracy-movements-toward-a-new-agenda/

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"Local governments ... need clear public policies that define acceptable and prohibited uses of data, protect privacy — by automatically blurring faces, for example — and ensure clear accountability and oversight," shares Stephen Goldsmith. https://bit.ly/3OignKJ

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"We need globally coordinated frameworks for independent auditing, mandatory disclosure of aggregate performance metrics and funded access for academic and civil-society researchers," share Bruce Schneier and co-author, on Anthropic's latest AI model. https://tgam.ca/4mBCf0c

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In a recent article, Stephen Richer, Senior Practice Fellow at the Ash Center, explores rising gas prices in Arizona and assesses various approaches proposed by local politicians to lower prices. Learn more ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4szdWkE

Stephen Richer joins "This Week with George Stephanopoulos" to discuss President Trump's executive order on mail-in voting in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/this-week-with-george-stephanopoulos/id91959525?i=1000759392836

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"We’ve seen more people take to the streets, not just in the US but around the world, by the millions, and in many, if not most, of those cases, the protests have not achieved their stated aims," shares Liz McKenna. https://bit.ly/47Tchz3

Danielle Allen joins WPSU Radio to discuss her work in democracy renovation and the lessons today's scholars can learn from the Founders and the Declaration of Independence. Learn more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4c8fsFP

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"In 2024, 65% of state legislators seeking reelection ran entirely unopposed. ... When elections lack competition, voters stop showing up, because there is a growing sense from the average person that their democracy isn't working for them." https://bit.ly/4v2LmuJ

"The political salience of AI will grow to meet the staggering scale of financial investment and societal impact it is already commanding. There is an opportunity for enterprising candidates ... to take the mantle of opposing AI-linked harms in the midterm elections." https://bit.ly/4172q56

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New research from Bruce Schneier and co-authors explores the ability of large language models (LLMs) to "anticipat[e] human responses on multiple-choice political issue polling questions by directly prompting an LLM to predict a distribution of responses." Learn more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/40UpJ1L

Linda Bilmes, Daniel Patrick Moynihan Senior Lecturer in Public Policy, shares potential long-term economic impacts of Operation Epic Fury. Learn more here ⤵️ https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/21/opinion/iran-war-cost.html

On the Democracy Forum podcast, Archon Fung reflects on democratic elections, stating that they “exist in order to secure a legitimate rule… and it’s civil society organizations that grant that legitimacy or not.” Learn more here ⤵️ https://apple.co/4888AFH

"If citizens want a Legislature that moves with both care and purpose—that debates thoughtfully, of course, but then also acts—we must end the era of uncontested elections," suggests Danielle Allen, in a recent article for The Boston Globe. Read more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4tbAXew

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In a recent opinion piece, Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center, explores possible outcomes of Operation Epic Fury in Iran, noting "military action only succeeds when military aims and political objectives are aligned." https://bit.ly/4dHfm8X

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"AI is the issue driving the most societal and economic change we will encounter in our lifetime, yet US political parties are largely silent. ... Few US politicians are leveraging the technology for public listening or other pro-democratic purposes." https://bit.ly/40JBKHh

“Technology just ignores [laws] and rewrites them. That’s true in social media. It’s true in AI as well. We already have laws [that] address issues of bias, consumer protection, and so forth. None of those are enforced online," shares Latanya Sweeney. https://bit.ly/4uECkDW

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Jeanne Sheehan Zaino, Democracy Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center, joins Bloomberg's Balance of Power to discuss Operation Epic Fury in Iran, noting “the President has yet to articulate clearly how any of this is in our best interest." https://bloom.bg/4bMgS8x

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"The new war echoes key traits from 20 years ago. Operation Epic Fury is another war of choice with no imminent military threat to the United States. ... Once again, US leaders are optimistic about the outcome, with little planning for what lies ahead." https://bit.ly/4sKInVD

"This is all truly unprecedented. ... There's really nothing to support the idea that you can fix a national legislative problem with regional reforms," shares Nicholas Stephanopoulos. https://bit.ly/4rwm5pM

"Partisan segregation ... is rising fastest among younger voters, raising concerns that a generation growing up in a politically segregated environment may remain so and that the existing partisan divide may self-perpetuate and continue to increase." https://bit.ly/40qV77T

Exploring the impacts of the Trump administration's actions in Venezuela and Iran, Jeanne Sheehan Zaino shares that "what is left is for the American public to speak out, most importantly at the ballot box." Learn more here ⤵️ https://bit.ly/4bdhNgM

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"With ambitious local leadership, AI, and especially the coming wave of agentic AI, can offer a profound opportunity not only to make government services more efficient but also to transform how cities fulfill their end of the social contract." https://bit.ly/4szE7bw

"It takes decades of debate, discussion, compromise ... to finally get action on an issue. ... Like limited responsiveness and ill-execution, policy dilution results when a political system is structurally divided as ours is," shares Jeanne Sheehan Zaino. https://bit.ly/4lgHiCH

"Human rights ... were created through struggle of people all over the world to try to define what our human rights were and to put them into declarations and then law. ... The enforcement of human rights is yet another set of struggles." https://bit.ly/4d5EUwi

"If the defense department is demanding the use of AI for mass surveillance or autonomous warfare that we, the public, find unacceptable, that should tell us we need to pass new legal restrictions on those military activities." https://bit.ly/4blSRF0

"Public AI developed by transparent, accountable agencies would allow democratic processes and political oversight to govern how these powerful systems function," share Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders in a recent article for The Globe and Mail. Learn more here ⤵️ https://tgam.ca/3MGoKip

“If we can agree on the importance of deliberation across political divides, maybe voters will be more alert to the risk of tech companies. … Technology will be as democracy-eroding or democracy-enhancing as the American people demand.” kroc.nd.edu/news-events/...

"Public AI developed by transparent, accountable agencies would allow democratic processes and political oversight to govern how these powerful systems function," share Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders. https://tgam.ca/3MGoKip

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"Building strong institutions is a much more effective use of resources than is betting on any single individual. ... Universities and institutions should stay committed to the public interest," share Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-00474-3.pdf

"The fact that badly designed approaches to participation exist does not delegitimize participation as a value. It signals that we have to rebuild the science of democratic design," shares Danielle Allen, in a recent conversation on The Good Fight. https://www.persuasion.community/p/danielle-allen