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A chart shows youth voter turnout from 1994 to 2022

Millions of Youth Cast Ballots, Decide Key 2022 Races

Young people, who overwhelmingly favored Democrats, had one of their highest turnout rates ever in a midterm and shaped results across the country

Why Getting More People to Vote Makes the Nation Stronger

Convincing Americans - especially the young and the marginalized - to cast their ballots is essential to the health of our democracy

Saving Democracy Series

Democracy in the United States is under its biggest threat in decades. In the Saving Democracy series, Tisch College experts explore the challenges facing democracy today and our best hopes for safeguarding it.

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Yahoo

Live Results on Massachusetts Question 1: Voters will decide on higher taxes for people earning more than $1 million

Center for State Policy (cSPA) analysis of Ballot Question 1, the "millionaires' tax" is included in this article.

Institute for Global Leadership Programs Transitioning to Tisch College

In the summer of 2022, Tufts University made the decision to close the Institute for Global Leadership (IGL) as a Provost-based institute and to transition its programs to the Jonathan M. Tisch College of Civic Life.

A blank ballot with a yes and no option. An expert at Tufts’ Center for State Policy Analysis gives a detailed—and nonpartisan—explanation of the Massachusetts “millionaires tax” ballot question

The Lowdown on the Massachusetts “Millionaires Tax” Ballot Question

An expert at Tufts’ Center for State Policy Analysis gives a detailed - and nonpartisan - explanation of Question 1

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The Conversation

Americans who aren’t sure about God are a fast-growing force in politics – and they’re typically even more politically active than white evangelicals

Analysis of Cooperative Election Survey data on religious beliefs among American voters is cited in this piece.

10 Things You Can Do to Strengthen Democracy

Protecting democracy isn’t just a job for Washington. The system thrives when citizens take part—and work together—at the local level

The second graduating cohort of MyTERN students to earn the certificate in Civic Studies from Tufts

NSF CIVIC 2022 Stage 1 Award Granted to Tisch College's Innovative Prison Initiative

Tisch College's TUPIT prison initiative is a NSF CIVIC 2022 Stage 1 grant awardee.