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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UVA's Digital Technology for Democracy Lab faculty co-lead Aynne Kokas discusses the Supreme Court’s decision to take up the TikTok ban case in January 2025 and provides her insights on the broader challenges TikTok poses to Western democracies.
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Cville Tulips, a nonprofit run through the Karsh Institute's Sound Justice Lab, builds communites and empowers local refugee women and children through art, English, and health classes.
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Devoted to transatlantic intellectual and cultural exchanges, this panel discussion included Laurent Dubois, academic director of UVA's Karsh Institute of Democracy; Alain-Philippe Durand, dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Arizona; and Jessica Kimpell-Johnson, director of research at the Karsh Institute.
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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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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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