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What Democracy Means to Us: Reflections on America 250
Exploring Ash Center perspectives on the meaning of democracy, democratic participation and citizenship, and how democratic life might evolve over the next 250 years.
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Consumers vs. Citizens in Democracy’s Public Sphere
Attempting to balance the challenging trade-offs between individual rights and our obligations to one another.
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Supreme Court’s ruling overturning Roe v. Wade “will have huge political ramifications”
HKS Professor Maya Sen, who has researched how Supreme Court decisions align with public opinion, reflects on the meaning of the historic ruling overturning constitutional protection for abortion.
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As Supreme Court Hands Down Decisions, New Polling Shows Divided Public on High-Profile Cases
New polling analysis released today shows that the American public is narrowly divided on a slew of ideologically charged issues before the Supreme Court such as abortion, gun control, immigration, and whether public funds can be used to pay for private religious education.
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Acknowledging and Reckoning with History
Historical reckoning, truth-telling, and new traditions of memorialization acknowledging the legacy of slavery are all critical to moving towards restorative and reparative change says Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project Director Khalil Gibran Muhammad.
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Professor Archon Fung named faculty director of the Ash Center
Professor Archon Fung has been appointed faculty director of Harvard Kennedy School’s Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Big Tech’s Rise to Political Power
An interview with Allison Stanger
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Decade-long study shows Supreme Court is now further to the ideological right than most Americans
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Reckoning with past injustices with respect and responsibility
Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development’s Megan Minoka Hill delivers land acknowledgment at 2022 Kennedy School diploma ceremony
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Lessons from and for Indian Country
Joel Chastain MC/MPA 2022 is taking lessons learned from the Chickasaw Nation and Harvard Kennedy School to promote tribal economic development.