When President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the 1964 Civil Rights Act into law, his action honored a decades-long struggle by grassroots…
A group of experts and former government officials from Harvard Kennedy School (vlog) and the German Council on Foreign Relations (DGAP)…
Why have conservatives decried 'activist judges'? And why have liberals - and America's powerful legal establishment - emphasized…
In most states, redistricting, the process by which electoral district boundaries are drawn, is an overtly partisan exercise controlled by…
The Electoral Integrity Project at Harvard University has conducted a new expert survey of the 2020 US Presidential Elections.
The…
A well-informed citizenry is essential in a democracy to preserve American values and make sound decisions in every area, from the school…
We study the contribution of economic conditions to the success of the first avowedly nativist political party in the United States. The…
As Yogi Berra once said, “A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore.” Nothing could be truer when it comes to money in American politics. In the…
The "aspirational" ideal in democracy is citizen authorship of the laws. That ideal at its fullest is unachievable even in direct…