By Vince Bzdek In September 2019, 523 Americans traveled to Dallas, Texas, for an experiment called “America in One Room.” The gathering was designed to test a theory: Could representative citizens ...

Some feel that the jury system has a fatal flaw. And that flaw is the jurors. They’re human, and that means they carry a wide variety of biases. Based on their experiences, their outlooks, the ...

Community colleges that held Deliberation Week events included: Broome Community College (Binghamton, NY) and Middlesex Community College (Bedford and Lowell, MA). Schools that added a broadcast ...

Pepper D Culpepper, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Malcolm Weiner Center for Social Policy at Harvard University, Archon Fung, Associate Professor of Public Policy at the Taubman Center ...

This is the second in a series of opinion pieces on how to fix democracy. RADICAL change is needed to overcome the crisis in liberal democracy. The needs range from the constitution to the machinery ...

2014 did not bring the immigration reforms the tech lobby pushed for. Hopes of reform that would benefit high-skilled workers were initially dashed when the Republican-controlled House of ...

Deliberative Opinion Polls® create a unique "poll with a human face" that is unlike traditional surveys. The results reveal the conclusions the public would reach if people had the chance to become ...