Director @harvardash@bsky.social. Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship, Harvard Kennedy School. I study participatory democracy. All views expressed here are my own.
Archon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Democracy at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and co-founder of the Transparency Policy Project. Fung served as an assistant professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 1999–June 2004, then as an associate professor of public policy at the Kennedy School from July 2004–October 2007, and finally as a professor of public policy from October 2007–March 2009 before being named as the Ford Foundation Chair of Democracy and Citizenship in March 2009. In 2015, he was elected to the Common Cause National Governing Board. .. more
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“The Massachusetts’ US Attorney General’s office has filed charges against the suspect they are seeking for the MIT shooting and the Brown shootings, according to a person familiar with the investigation.”
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International public opinion of the United States has worsened in Trump's second term, while global opinion of China has improved.
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The Restore Trust in Congress Act stops this conflict of interest.
It’s simple. Pass it already.
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It will be a driver’s manual for democracies globally on how to make U-turns
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David Sacks “has 708 tech investments .. that could be aided directly or indirectly by his policies, according to a New York Times analysis
“The tech bros are out of control,” said Steve Bannon.
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“the paradox of prosperity… is that the people most able to resist authoritarianism are also those perhaps most vulnerable and least willing to resist it.”
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“Saying Larry Summers has to step down is another version of the same kind of scapegoating,” Lessig said. Harvard … “failed to hold accountable the most powerful people on campus with ties to Epstein.”
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“following a call with a top Justice Department official, he had four hours to resign, or severe punitive measures would be leveled against the school”
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