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Internment camps don’t fire up minority political engagement—they depress it
A new study of how the detention of Japanese Americans during World War II affected their political engagement helps shed new light on a unique history and on the long-lasting dangers of targeting minorities.
For 20 years, Harvard Kennedy School has been training LGBTQ leaders in state and local government with support from the David Bohnett Foundation
The School’s executive education program for state and local government leaders is more popular—and more necessary—than ever.
“Lengthy and convoluted and vague”: HKS historian Alex Keyssar on the problems with the Electoral Count Act and how proposed reforms could fix it
A law written in post-Civil War America to try to avoid problems with the counting of Electoral College votes has never been very clear. A new set of proposed reforms tries to change that.
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