For the first time in its 60-year history, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) — often referred to as food ...

The federal government shutdown, precipitated by Congress’s inability to reach consensus on a fiscal year 2026 budget, is ...

Tova Wang is the Director of Research Projects in Democratic Practice at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. She was most recently Director of Policy and Research at the Center ...

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation develops the policy innovations needed to achieve healthy democracy in the 21st century. Healthy democracy today must deliver responsive representation and ...

Surveys show that trust in one another and key institutions, such as government, media, and the courts, has reached historic lows in the U.S. At the same time, hyper-partisan polarization has ...

Jael Whitney Brothers is the Assistant Director for the Honoring Nations program at the Harvard Project on Indigenous Governance and Development. Prior to joining the Ash Center, Jael helped run the ...

As organizers for No Kings 2 seek historic turnout on October 18, the broader pro-democracy movement has already broken new ground. But one question that often arises is whether the protests are ...

Ami Fields-Meyer is a Senior Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation. He served in the White House from 2021 to 2024, including as Senior Policy Advisor to Vice President ...

Hollie Russon Gilman holds a Ph.D. from the Department of Government at Harvard University. She holds an A.B. from the University of Chicago with highest honors in political science. Her research ...

In this era of increasing polarization, even enemies can negotiate. Indeed for the health of the country political adversaries must learn to negotiate well. Learning the fundamentals of successful ...

Join Erica Chenoweth and Steven Levitsky for the inaugural session of The Breakdown, a new webinar series on the ongoing struggle for American democracy. Each month, Chenoweth and Levitsky will break ...

This policy primer from the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation is intended to introduce the ideas and conversations around reform of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and how it could ...