On Tuesday, August 5, 2025, Harvard Law School’s Nicholas Stephanopoulos, Kirkland & Ellis Professor of Law, joined Archon ...

Josh Cortez graduated from the Harvard Kennedy School as an Ash Center fellow in May 2025. But his journey to the Kennedy ...

Terms of Engagement – ICE Expansion, Raids, Protests, and Democracy From rank-choice voting to reconciliation, American democracy is headline news. Let’s talk about it.

Governments throughout history have used detention as a tool to silence dissent, isolate marginalized groups, and punish with impunity – often targeting people based on race, status, or supposed ...

Commentary May 14, 2025 The Voter Experience Despite these unprecedented investments in mobilizing voters, overall trust in electoral health, democratic institutions, voter satisfaction, and electoral ...

US democratic backsliding encourages repression abroad — but also protest Matthew Cebul and Sharan Grewal explain that dictators around the world have been emboldened by the Trump administration’s ...

Commentary Apr 8, 2025 Weaponized AI: A New Era of Threats and How We Can Counter It Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation Fellow Dr. Shlomit Wagman lays out a framework to address the threats artificial ...

Over the past several weeks, the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) within the Trump Administration has been embedding staff in a range of United States federal agencies. These staff have ...

AI-powered bots and electoral participation: a view from the Venezuelan experience Drawing from her experience deploying an AI-powered chatbot to share accurate voting information during Venezuela’s ...

Feature Mar 3, 2025 The AI and Democracy Movements Workshop: A Postscript Erica Chenoweth shares a brief addendum to the Nonviolent Action Lab’s workshop held in December 2024 on how AI can influence ...

Feature Mar 3, 2025 Unlocking AI’s potential for social movements Building effective channels for the interaction between AI developers and activist communities is critical for innovating social ...

The AI and Democracy Movements Project at the Nonviolent Action Lab explores promising developments in AI that could support pro-democratic social movements. The project aims – through research and ...