From Patients to Voters: Civic Engagement in Health Care
This event concluded on August 5, 2020. View the original description and event recording below. Health care is the single most important issue for most Americans, yet 51 million people forego a...
View ArticleSaving Our Own Lives: Grassroots Responses to COVID-19 Around the Globe
This event concluded on August 13, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.COVID-19 laid bare the cracks in national leadership and international institutions charged with...
View ArticleGetting Out the BIPOC Vote: Digital Strategies to Build Power
This event concluded on September 10, 2020. View the original description and event recording below.Activists and practitioners were already preparing for a tumultuous election year before the COVID-19...
View ArticleVoting in the Extraordinary 2020 Elections: What Worked for Voters, What Didn’t?
While it is way too early for a ‘retrospective’ given just how extraordinary this year’s election has been, we do now know a lot about the voting processes up to and including Election Day. The 2020...
View ArticleLooking Forward: The Paths and Prospects for Democracy Reform
As the smoke (slowly) clears from the 2020 elections, advocates for full participation and democracy reform are charting a path forward. In Congress and in state legislatures, the lessons of 2020 and...
View ArticleGeorgia on Our Minds: Voter Engagement and Voter Protection in the Senate...
At this moment, the attention of the country is sharply focused on the state of Georgia. Just two months after a breathtakingly narrow election, one in which the mechanisms of democracy and the...
View ArticlePolitical Geographies of the Populist Right
Support for populist right-wing parties and candidates has increased considerably across the globe in recent years. In addition to this overall rise in support, receptiveness towards the exclusionary,...
View ArticleCan We Break Out of the Two-Party Doom Loop?
The January 6 Capitol insurrection shows that the United States is facing exceptional challenges to our democracy. Lee Drutman, Senior Fellow in the Political Reform Program at the New America...
View ArticleMoving Forward or Moving Backward: Election Legislation in the States
The 2020 elections hinged, in dramatic ways, on widely varying state laws and state election procedures. Major changes were made in light of the pandemic, to expand options for mail-in and early...
View ArticleBook Talk - The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper...
Join the Ash Center; Tufts University’s Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life; Office of Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging at Harvard University; and Black Student Union at Harvard Kennedy School...
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