Institutions of Democracy

A new Annenberg Classroom film explores the history of constitutional protection against “cruel and unusual punishment”

An APPC report assesses the current state of civics education in community colleges and how it can be enhanced across the United States.

In his show "Last Week Tonight," comedian John Oliver cited FactCheck.org to debunk Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s misleading claims about autism.

A paper co-authored by APPC Research Analyst Shawn Patterson Jr. shows that entertainment media can have important political consequences.

A new report by APPC researchers on public confidence in U.S. courts finds that trust in the federal judiciary has waned in recent years.

FactCheck.org Deputy Managing Editor Robert Farley has been awarded the Sigma Delta Chi Award for fact-checking claims made during the Biden impeachment investigation and inquiry.

R. Lance Holbert, a communication scholar, will head APPC's civics education initiatives as director of the Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics.

The Center for Civic Education has received the 2024 Leonore Annenberg Institute for Civics Award from the Annenberg Public Policy Center. 

The report from the 2015 working group has been in the news ahead of this year's presidential debates.

Trust in the Supreme Court is now split on partisan lines following the court's shift to the right capped by the 2022 Dobbs decision.