The White House has come to rely on unilateral powers to make policy. Is that good for democracy?
UVA professor John Owen, who is the Karsh Institute's Advisory Board vice chair and was a featured speaker in our 'Touchstones of Democracy' event series, received the 2025 Grawemeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order.
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"For the past decade, I have been studying conversations between people who disagree about politics," writes Rachel Wahl, director of the Karsh Institute's Good Life Political Project. "People rarely change their minds about political issues, but they frequently feel much better about the people with whom they disagree."
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“If you look at demand, [trains are] actually skyrocketing in in Virginia,” said the Weldon Cooper Center's Terry Rephann. “Some of it is [clear preferences and] changing lifestyles. Young folks are much more keen on public transit.”
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Aynne Kokas, faculty co-lead for the Digital Technology for Democracy Lab, delivered the keynote address at the Athens Security Forum on November 22, 2024.
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Before a panel of former White House and Cabinet speechwriters, eight students delivered five-minute speeches in the final round of the fourth annual UVA Student Oratory Competition. The Karsh Institute and Think Again, a University initiative that promotes free speech, hosted the event with the goal of sparking conversation and civic engagement.
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Roya Pakzad, a Data & Democracy Practitioner Fellow at the Karsh Institute, discovered that around two percent of government defense expenditures was spent on AI, which prompted her to examine the ethicality and transparency of AI procurement.
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Gov. Murphy, a Democrat, and Gov. Cox, a Republican, were part of the latest installment of the Democracy Dialogue series, sponsored by UVA’s Miller Center of Public Affairs and the Karsh Institute of Democracy.
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“We don’t know to what extent [the election of Donald Trump] could affect Brazil’s sovereignty," worries Yasmin Curzi of UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab. "Starlink may disclose Internet traffic data to the U.S. government."
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“What this [focus on recess appointments] calls into question is the relationship that Trump intends to have with the other institutions that are intended to be a check on the executive—a power that the vast majority of American people, regardless of political parties, says is absolutely important,” Executive Director Melody Barnes told CBC's 'American Roundtable.'
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According to an American Enterprise Institute study—by Karsh Institute Practioner Fellow Sam Pressler—nearly a quarter of people with a high-school degree or less say they have no close friends, whereas only 10 percent of those with college degrees or more say that.
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