Defending Democracy Together Institute

Lyceum Labs is a charitable project whose mission is to improve the quality of political leadership and party politics in the United States through nonpartisan research, analysis, and educational efforts. Its goals include producing more responsible and principled political leaders who warrant and earn the public’s trust, and helping create a more pluralistic and pragmatic party system better suited for our diverse democracy. This grant is for Defending Democracy Together Institute to support its fiscally sponsored project, Lyceum Labs.

The Presidential Reform Project is a nonpartisan project dedicated to analysis of the manifold gaps, ambiguities, and weaknesses in the laws and norms governing the contemporary presidency — and to the pathways to reform. The project is led by Bob Bauer and Jack Goldsmith, who are co-authors of “After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency” (2020). The effort is a project of the Defending Democracy Together Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to strengthening our country’s core values and institutions.

The Defending Democracy Together Institute seeks to develop and publish the best new thinking and journalism on politics, policy, and culture from a center-right perspective. The Institute’s goal is to nurture and promote ideas that are consistent with basic American principles of freedom and self-government and to publicize them among a center-right audience. To accomplish this goal, the Institute publishes the online magazine The Bulwark, which combines original journalism in the form of written commentary, daily newsletters, podcasts, and videos, along with handpicked aggregated content from around the internet. The Bulwark is a unique, nonpartisan voice in the field of political ideas and journalism.