Portland, Oregon recently passed Measure 26-228, which represents some of the most expansive voting reforms by a major American city in…
Beginning in 2021, state legislators introduced or passed numerous bills intended to shape appropriate content in K–12 social studies…
Carr Center Faculty Affiliate Martha Minow highlights how the declining investment in traditional news due to the internet affects…
This paper documents the impact of popular media on racial hate by examining the first American blockbuster: 1915's The Birth of a Nation,…
Many groups in the US are focused on preventing the further rise of authoritarian forces by raising alarms about authoritarian power-grabs…
What are the downstream political consequences of state activity explicitly targeting an ethnic minority group? This question is well…
How do high-profile acts of police brutality affect public trust and cooperation with law enforcement? To investigate this question, we…
A right of equal access to public goods and services is rooted in the rights to ‘Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness.’ With these…
The First Amendment guarantees some of the most fundamental rights provided to Americans under the Constitution. The right to free…
Privacy has always been one of the most precarious rights of American life because it lacks clear protections in the U.S. Constitution. The…