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From Crisis to Action: Turning the Tide on Democratic Erosion Through Organizing

In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to discuss how civil society can resist democratic backsliding through social mobilization and organizing.

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How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy

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How ChatGPT Hijacks Democracy

“… for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes — not through voting, but through lobbying.”

Cryptocurrencies and National Security: The Case of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing

Cryptocurrencies and National Security: The Case of Money Laundering and Terrorism Financing

This Article reviews the anti-money laundering and counter-financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) framework and its application to cryptocurrencies. Then, it presents case studies demonstrating the important contributions that the AML/CFT toolkit has made to countries’ security.

What does it mean to have a strong multiracial democracy?

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What does it mean to have a strong multiracial democracy?

The Ash Center’s Khalil Gibran Muhammad and Archon Fung discuss how without a more robust commitment to upholding and protecting multiracial democracy, the United States won’t be able to solve its democratic backsliding.

Democracy on the (down) ballot

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Democracy on the (down) ballot

Ash panel unpacks election reforms at stake during the midterms

 

New research on the impacts of restrictions on the applicability of federal Indian policy to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine
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New research on the impacts of restrictions on the applicability of federal Indian policy to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine

A team of researchers from the Harvard Kennedy School today released a research report documenting the costs to the Wabanaki Nations in Maine and to Maine’s non-tribal citizens of the state’s being screened off from federal policies of Indian self-determination and self-governance.