Authoritarianism Isn’t About the Leader, It’s About Us
July 11, 2026
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as posted by the channelJulia Angwin is an award-winning investigative journalist, bestselling author, New York Times contributing Opinion writer, and founding director of the Independent Media + Audience Project at Harvard Kennedy School's Shorenstein Center. She founded two nonprofit newsrooms investigating technology's impacts—Proof News and The Markup—and is a Pulitzer Prize winner and two-time finalist in Explanatory Reporting.
Ami Fields-Meyer is a senior fellow at Harvard Kennedy School's Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation and a former senior policy advisor at the White House, where he led U.S. policy on civil rights, consumer protection, and technology. His writing on democracy and public policy has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, and Foreign Policy.
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