Around the world, democratically elected leaders are subverting the very institutions that brought them to power, gradually ...

Building active channels for the interaction between AI developers and activist communities is critical for innovating social ...

People power movements are those in which large segments of society engage in collective action to demand greater political ...

It’s a term people love to throw around but can’t always define: conflicts of interest. Conflicts of interest pervade public ...

At a conference earlier this month, Professor Danielle Allen argued that what we are seeing with DOGE is the real time implementation of an extreme ideological vision of the role that technology and a ...

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements. The AI and Democracy Movements Project at the Nonviolent ...

In response to the recent anti-democratic patterns in the United States, the Ash Center hosted a panel of Harvard scholars to ...

Democracy movements are struggling to challenge autocratic governments, partly due to slower AI adoption, and this report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the issue with key recommendations. In ...

Isabella Picón is a Venezuelan pro-democracy activist and organizer. She has an undergraduate degree from Northwestern University and an MSc in Politics and Communications from the London School of ...

The Ash Center invites you to a book talk with Archon Fung and Sean Gray, co-editors of Empowering Affected Interests. They will be joined in discussion by Carol Gould and Emma Saunders-Hastings, ...

In this webinar, panelists drew upon lessons from around the world about how civil society groups can protect and promote democracy and the rule of law during episodes of democratic backsliding. In ...