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Black Lives, Protest, and Democracy
Leading scholars and practitioners discuss recent protests, their place in the long fight for social justice, and democracy in America
The Answer to Our Voting Wars?
Ash Center Fellow Miles Rapoport helps ignite a public debate on implementing universal voting in the United States
Finding Allies and Making Revolution
In a new book, Ash Center Director Tony Saich stitches together an untold story from the early years of the Chinese Communist Party
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Arab Spring Ten Years Later
Tarek Masoud pushes back on the notion that authoritarian states in the Middle East can successfully hold back the demand for freedom so vividly exhibited during the height of the Arab Spring
Voting Rights Battle Enters a New Round
Harvard experts share insights into federal voting rights legislation and what it means in the context of restrictive voting measures advancing in states like Georgia
Meeting America's Infrastructure Needs
Professor Stephen Goldsmith, former mayor of Indianapolis and deputy mayor of New York, discusses the new White House jobs and infrastructure plan
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Helping Mayors Navigate Moral Dilemmas
A new set of materials from the Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative is designed to help leaders understand and evaluate challenges with highly sensitive moral dimensions. Each of the cases focuses on a city leader forced to make a particular moral choice.