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Danielle Allen’s “Radical Duke” reveals an unsung catalyst of history
Allen uncovers the deep—then volatile—friendship between a British duke and Thomas Paine.
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Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development releases research on allocation of COVID‐19 response funds
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Reaching People Where They Are: Integrated Digital and Field Organizing with Daniel Marks
The Ash Center hosted a virtual workshop on April 7, 2020, with Daniel Marks, an Ash Center Technology and Democracy Fellow who serves as a Digital Manager at Color Of Change. Learn how digital campaigners can best uplift and assist field organizers in down-ballot races.
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A Full Census Count Amidst Pandemic
Counting every person in the census is critical to the proper functioning of a democracy. The Ash Center hosted a conversation with census experts for an update on the 2020 census.
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Miles Rapoport on the Challenges Coronavirus Poses to Election Day
As the presidential primary season unfolds, the Ash Center sat down with Miles Rapoport, Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center and former Secretary of the State for Connecticut, for a conversation about the steps that election officials can take to lessen the risks posed by coronavirus on election day
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Book Talk: We Own the Future — Democratic Socialism, American Style
The Ash Center hosted a discussion with Peter Dreier, co-editor of We Own the Future: Democratic Socialism—American Style. Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, will moderate.
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Convincing Congress to Remove its Tech Policy Blinders
The Ash Center sat down with Zach Graves, a 2019 Technology and Democracy Fellow, head of policy at the Lincoln Network, and author of “Science, Technology, and Democracy: Building a Modern Congressional Technology Assessment Office,” a new paper offering recommendations and a road map for resurrecting a technology assessment capability in Congress
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Can We Break Out of the Two-Party Doom Loop?
In this talk, Drutman and Archon Fung, Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government, discussed our two-party system and potential strategies for a critical, non-incremental move away from our dysfunctional “politics as usual.”
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New Ash Center Report Offers a Road Map for Building Technology Expertise in Congress
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Harvard Voter Turnout Doubles in 2018 Election
A detailed analysis of midterm voter turnout figures from the 2018 elections shows that the percentage of eligible Harvard students who turned up at the polls nearly doubled when compared to the last midterm elections in 2014