America at 250: Historians say democracy is an ongoing experiment
In a collaboration between Harvard Kennedy School and Johns Hopkins University, Lindsay Chervinsky and Leah Wright Rigueur look at the facts and flaws of the American experiment.
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The Depolarizing Promise of Shared Sports Fandom
Seventy-six percent of Americans identify as sports fans, and sixty-three percent consider themselves passionate fans. We find that this shared identity powerfully reduces partisan animosity.
When authority figures kill, communities change forever
ICE violence is a feature, not a bug, of our law enforcement system.
Nationalization in Local Elections
There is an important debate about how much the nationalization of American politics has affected local politics.
Durable Majority Gerrymanders: Where Partisan Gerrymandering Can Displace Democracy
We develop the concept of, and estimation tools for, durable majority gerrymanders: electoral district maps drawn to reduce an opposing political party's probability of winning a majority in a legisla
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