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Artificial Intelligence and Digital Governance: Reflections on Magnifica Humanitas, Human Rights, and Two Speeches by the Prime Minister of Spain

When Robert Francis Prevost was elected pope in spring 2025 and chose the name Leo XIV, I wrote that this choice signaled something consequential for the human rights movement. By invoking the name of ...
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Explainer: What’s happening with gerrymandering in the United States—and who will “win” the redistricting battle?

American states traditionally redraw their congressional districts every 10 years. Recently, states have begun redrawing districts mid-cycle to give a political advantage to a particular party. Texas, ...
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What Louisiana v. Callais Means for the Voting Rights Act

On Wednesday, the Supreme Court significantly weakened the 1965 Voting Rights Act through a landmark ruling in Louisiana v. Callais. The Court ruled that Louisiana’s 2024 congressional map, which ...
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The Sanctuary Was the Last Place Left: On Artificial Intelligence, Faith, and What We Are Willing to Protect

The integration of artificial intelligence into religious life from faith-based chatbot applications to robotic officiants in houses of worship is one of the most underexamined frontiers in AI ...
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New poll: Just 13% of youth feel America is headed in the right direction

A new national poll finds young people under enormous economic stress, with little faith that government, elections, or national leadership will serve them. The 52nd Youth Poll run by the Institute of ...
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AI Regulation and Human Rights: A Global Trilemma

The views expressed below are those of the author and do not necessarily reflect those of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights or Harvard Kennedy School. These perspectives have been presented to ...
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Why is the war in Iran so expensive?

On February 28, the United States and Israel launched attacks on Iran, killing supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. By early April, the United States had more than 56,000 troops in the war zone ...
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Are we officially at war with Iran?

On April 1, President Trump made his first formal public address about the United States’ military actions in Iran. His speech came over a month after the United States and Israel sent missiles and ...
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AI feels increasingly “human”—what do humans stand to lose?

Sue Anne Teo is a technology and human rights fellow at the Kennedy School’s Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights. Her work explores the intersection of human rights and artificial intelligence. Teo is ...
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Venezuela after Maduro

The conversation was moderated by Ned Price, interim co-director of the Institute of Politics, former deputy to the U.S. representative to the United Nations and former senior advisor to Secretary of ...
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Democracy in 2025: Harvard professors on rising authoritarianism in the United States

“Authoritarianism is new to many Americans,” said Steven Levitsky late last month. “And Americans have responded in a couple different ways—but we see a couple of misperceptions that concern us.” ...
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In today’s media landscape, attention is a battlefield

We are living through a historic media transformation as consequential as the invention of the printing press, said Nancy Gibbs, the director of the Shorenstein Center and the Edward R. Murrow ...