What kind of democracy do legislators want? This question was at the center of a recent discussion with Melody Crowder-Meyer, ...

Wildfire alerts, drinking water contamination warnings, and auto safety recalls are among the nation’s enduring commitments to inform all Americans about hidden risks. A closer look at how they have ...

In Race/Class Conflict and Urban Financial Threat, political scientist Jennifer L. Hochschild analyzes key policies in four major U.S. cities to explore when race and class influence urban politics, ...

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Chief Sophie Pierre, a respected leader of the Ktunaxa Nation, has been named the Inaugural Senior Fellow in Indigenous Governance and Development at Harvard Kennedy School, starting in Spring 2025.

Jose Martinez is a Program Manager at the Ash Center, supporting Fellowships and Democracy Initiatives. He joined the Ash Center from the technology sector, having performed technical support and ...

The 2024 election highlighted the shifting partisan allegiance of working-class voters. What impact does the labor movement have on members’ political decision making? Join us for a presentation of a ...

Mary W. Graham co-directs the Transparency Policy Project. Graham’s research focuses on the politics of public disclosure, information strategies to improve public health and safety, new trends in ...

In their latest article for The Conversation, Justin de Benedictis-Kessner and Christopher Warshaw explain that there’s no empirical evidence linking crime trends to leadership by either political ...

Join us on April 24th at 5:00pm in Williams Chapel (Swartz Hall, Harvard Divinity School) as we welcome Rev. Margaret Grun Kibben, Chaplain of the U.S. House of Representatives, to discuss the ...