This talk explores how local newspaper paywalls affect news consumption, online behavior, and political and economic knowledge, as well as voting and community engagement. Using the most comprehensive ...

Civil resistance refers to the use of nonviolent methods—such as protests, strikes, boycotts, and organized noncooperation—to ...

Examining the evolution of American democracy and prospective pathways for democratic governance and reform on the 250th anniversary of the United States. Democracy 250 at the Ash Center for ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-government.

Penn University Professor Emeritus Rogers Smith joins Terms of Engagement hosts Archon Fung and Stephen Richer to discusses birthright citizenship, an American institution enshrined in the ...

Across the United States, there is a growing consensus that the neoliberal economic order has failed to address many of the systemic challenges facing our society. Even as the economy has boomed in ...

Our team explores how protest and dissent serve as vital forces in democratic societies, shaping public discourse, advancing social change, and informing scholarly research on civic participation and ...

Khalil Gibran Muhammad is the inaugural Professor of African American Studies and Public Affairs at Princeton University, where he directs the Institutional Antiracism and Accountability Project. He ...

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-government.

Roughly 80 percent of the population who do not live in “swing states” lack a clear notion of what they “need to do” to actively support their candidates. Near the close of their speeches at the ...

Last week’s leak of the U.S. Department of Education’s proposed “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” drew intense reactions across academia. Critics call it government overreach ...