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Harvard students are invited to join the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation for an open house reception to ...

This report argues that public options for AI, along with utility-style regulation, will strengthen national security by ...

Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed ...

As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the history of tech hype cycles to warn against the harmful effects of the current ...

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff in a range of United States federal agencies. These staff have ...

In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today. Protestors ...

The Real Numbers: Tracking Crowd Sizes at Presidential Rallies This post uses the Crowd Counting Consortium’s data on U.S. protest activity since 2017 to estimate and compare the average size of the ...

Why federal courts are unlikely to save democracy from Trump’s and Musk’s attacks Maya Sen argues that federal courts are unlikely to protect democracy from threats posed by Trump and Musk, as the ...

Likely use cases for AI polling AI polling will be irresistible to campaigns, and to the media. But research is already revealing when and where this tool will fail. While AI polling will always have ...