In 2008, Millennials (i.e., voters under the age of 30) in the United States were largely responsible for nominating and electing a president. Three years later, young people helped change the world as tens of thousands banded together, organized themselves, became Time's Person of the Year and helped usher democracy...

For more than a decade, our Harvard Institute of Politics study group of undergraduate students has been meeting regularly to survey and discuss their generation's involvement in American politics. While some semesters the data were more encouraging than others, the overarching narrative of the last ten years has...

Talking recently with Russian scholar Gregory Asmolov about Ushahidi's latest efforts in Russia with the wild fires got me thinking. If a handful of social entrepreneurs from Kenya could create an open-source "social mapping" platform that successfully tracks and sheds light on violence in Kenya, earthquake response in...

For more than a decade, I have been honored to collaborate with hundreds of talented students and to direct the polling for Harvard's Institute of Politics. And thanks to my friends Erin Ashwell (Harvard '02) and Trevor Dryer (Harvard '02), in 2000, we launched the first research project...