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COLUMN The Mayor From Jaws Can Save Our City

Larry Vaughn Is Perfect for a City Determined to Ignore Serious Threats

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Across Asia, Youth Demand for Reform

Asia Democracy Network's 2026 Democracy Overview Tackles, Youth and Power Across Asia

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COLUMN Reform Isn't Enough. The City Must Be Refounded

Existential Threats Require New Boundaries, New Finance, New Civil Defense

While the Citizens’ Assembly 2025 went ahead at the national level in Switzerland last year, a similar project in Geneva was cancelled at short notice by local authorities in early 2026. Keystone / Alessandro Della Valle

SWI Are Citizens Assemblies Declining With Democracy?

Long-Planned Assembly in Geneva Canceled by Authorities Just Before It Was to Begin

COLUMN Do Blindfolds Bridge Local Divides?

Gabriel Kahan's Creative Assemblies Get Cops, Screenwriters, and Localities to Come Together and Listen

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Budapest

Watching How Local Democracy Made Orban's Defeat Possible

Democracy Local Is a New Regional Partner of Consul Democracy

Consul Democracy Is a Complete Citizen Participation Too for Open, Transparent, Democratic Government

VIDEO Voices From the First Citizens Assembly in Los Angeles

The sortition lottery-selected group urged historic changes to LA's charter

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ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Bhutan's Blind Spot

In Land of Himalayan Happiness, Political Prisoners Spend Decades In Decrepit Jails

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Halting Fights Between Locals & Elephants

Sri Lankan Governments Ignore a Science-Based Mitigation for Human-Elephant Conflict

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INTERVIEW America's Most Popular Mayor, America's New Olympic...

David Holt Says His Now Olympic City Succeeds Because "We Invest In Ourselves"

COLUMN Reform Is Coming. Just Wait 100 Years

California Spends the 2020s Instituting Reforms From the 1920s.