The Communiqué, the Ash Center’s bi-annual magazine, is a chronicle of the Center’s latest research and news. Dear friends and colleagues, Welcome to the first-ever digital-only issue of the Ash ...

Across the political spectrum, a contest is underway over the future of political economy. From “inclusive abundance” and “power-sharing liberalism” to the “patriot economy,” scholars and policymakers ...

As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, David Gray Widder and Mar Hicks draw on the history of tech hype cycles to warn against the harmful effects of the current ...

Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation Fellow Dr. Shlomit Wagman lays out a framework to address the threats artificial intelligence poses to global security and democratic institutions. Artificial ...

The year 2024 was dubbed “the largest election year in global history” with half the world’s population voting in national elections. Earlier this year, we hosted an event on AI and the 2024 Elections ...

Public polling is a critical function of modern political campaigns and movements, but it isn’t what it once was. Recent US election cycles have produced copious postmortems explaining both the ...

As a part of the Allen Lab’s Political Economy of AI Essay Collection, Tessel van Oirsouw explores how the EU should pursue “mission-oriented industrial policy” to align its technological development ...

In new paper, Danielle Allen explores how higher ed can play a role in promoting the health of our democracy. “Civic education and engagement in our universities — educating toward self-government and ...

In a new essay, Archon Fung looks at this current wave of campus protests and asks if civil disobedience is permissible, and how much disruption should be tolerated at universities today. Protestors ...

As 2024 draws to a close, it’s instructive to take stock of how democracy did. In a Pew survey of Americans from earlier this fall, nearly eight times as many respondents expected AI to be used for ...

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 ...

From misinformation to AI panic, experts joined the Allen Lab’s GETTING-Plurality event to discuss the threats the burgeoning technology poses to democracy. This image was created by AI via Adobe ...