Do digital media outlets have political bias, and can they manipulate how we vote and see elections because of it? We asked Dipayan Ghosh, Ph.D, the Pozen Fellow at the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School. He was a technology and economic policy advisor in the Obama White House and served as a privacy

On August 22, 2018, the Ithaca Times, a small newspaper in upstate New York, printed a voter registration form on the cover of the paper. The Commons’ Emma Coleman looked into how this happened, and how other local papers can take on the task of keeping their readership civically engaged. As autumn sweeps into Ithaca,

Raffi Krikorian is the Chief Technology Officer of the Democratic National Committee, where he is focusing on building foundational technology at the DNC, empowering the technology ecosystem around the Democrats, and equipping candidates up and down the ballot. Prior to joining the DNC, Raffi served as the Director of Uber’s Advanced Technology Center. Mikey Dickerson

Dana Chisnell, Co-Executive Director of the Center for Civic Design, is a pioneer in civic design. She was in the founding cohort of the United States Digital Service in the Obama White House. She teaches election design at University of Minnesota and design in government at Harvard Kennedy School of Government. When you look at