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Commentary
Allen Lab Policy Fellow Hillary Lehr provides a late-October 2026 snapshot of the multiple ways that AI and the midterms are intersecting, including campaign use cases, policy issues, and voters’ use of LLMs.
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The Crowd Counting Consortium recorded more than 1,800 protest events in the U.S. in March 2021, with roughly 88,000 to 125,000 participants in the events.
Communique Magazine
This issue tells the stories of the Ash Center community who, during a global pandemic, continued to address some of the most salient public policy challenges of the day. In the virtual magazine pages, we feature how students are fighting for better voter access and engagement, the importance of educating the next generation of public sector leaders in digital governing, and how decarbonization could be a key part of US-China cooperation. We highlight the salient research and commentary of the Center’s experts and introduce Center students and alumni.
Alison Stanger argues that the real threat to liberal democracies is not capitalism, but the growing inequalities that corporate surveillance in its unfettered form both reveals and exacerbates.
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The Ash Center and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) hosted a discussion of Our Common Purpose, a report issued by the Commission on the Practice of Democratic Citizenship.