American democracy is in real trouble, but history, law, social science, and global politics all suggest that rights can be rebuilt, and that people and institutions are already laying the groundwork ...

Donald Trump is not forever. There will be an after. It’s hard to see from the present, where everything feels frozen in place. But from history’s vantage, change is the only constant. American ...

Three major reports out this month say President Trump has done serious damage to American democracy at remarkable speed since his return to the White House. An annual report from V-Dem, an institute ...

For the past ten years I have paid close attention to everything Donald Trump has said and done. This is my job—but it is also who I have become. At the school gates, in the office, online: friends ...

AI is changing what it means to be a democratic citizen. Here’s how we can harness it for good. Every few centuries, changes in how information moves reshape how societies govern themselves. The ...

The way ancient societies like the Greeks, Maya, and Khmer Empire built their cities can tell us a lot about how a place was governed. Did rulers live in ornate palaces or alongside other residents?

In the wake of ruthless arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort in Minneapolis, one Harvard political scientist is arguing something many of us have suspected for a long time: the US is ...

Anyone who has been paying the slightest bit of attention to the daily ebb and flow of news during the first year of the second Donald Trump administration should reallllly have picked up on the way ...