This chapter examines how generative artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming four domains of democratic practice: political campaigns, election administration, social movements, and citizen delib
Generative artificial intelligence is transforming computer programming into a frontier case of high-skill automation.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained on a prodigious corpus of human writing and may reveal human preferences over characteristics of life courses, such as income, longevity, and working condition
Horizontal inequity occurs when employees and self-employed workers with the same income end up with different effective tax burdens, due to the difficulty of enforcing taxes on the self-employed.
Objective: To examine the association between state increases in income or asset eligibility limits for Medicare Savings Programs (MSP), which provide assistance with Medicare cost-sharing and/or prem
IMPORTANCE When becoming eligible for Medicare, adults previously covered by Medicaid expansion are typically required to meet an asset test for Medicaid coverage of Medicare cost-sharing and/or premi
The U.S. population has shifted away from blue states and toward red states in recent years.
Why a global era of authoritarian governance may be coming to an end.
A new report summarizes key insights from the Nonviolent Action Lab’s December 2025 convening on how artificial intelligence can empower pro-democracy movements.
The argument that the natural-resource curse is at work in the US rests on the assumption that rising oil and gas production will necessarily crowd out manufacturing, including renewables.
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