As our revived national conversation on race has made clear, the legacies of slavery and white supremacy run wide and deep in American…
Since the first generation of deliberative democratic theory, and the ‘deliberative turn’ in the 1990s, many societies around the world…
Every four years, millions of Americans wonder why they choose their presidents through the Electoral College, an arcane institution that…
Explains the landmark Great American Outdoors Act and why the bipartisan politics aligned to make it possible.
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This month, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan reconsecrated the Hagia Sophia — a UNESCO world heritage site and museum — as a house of…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting a minority group? This question is well studied in…
The Cold War dominated world affairs during the half century following World War II. America prevailed, but only after fifty years of grim…
Many public leaders and activists—politicians, advocates, social movement leaders, and even ordinary citizens—seek to alter patterns of…
This annual report highlights leading results from the most recent data analysis of the Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center’s China…