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Gonzales Youth Council members, past and present. Photo by Joe Mathews

COLUMN The Best City Council Never Grows Up

A Small Town's Powerful Youth Council Turns 10—And Opens a $28 Million Center

Jamaima Afridi for Asia Democracy Chronicles, courtesy Asia Democracy Chronicles. (Jamaima is also that story's author)

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Bosnia Herzegovina

READINGS: Lessons Learned From Conflict and Reconciliation in Bosnia

Childhood in War

Photo by Joe Mathews

NEWSLETTER: Does Your Local Constitution Need a Preamble?

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COLUMN Draft Buffy

The California Governor's Race Is a Mess. So Why Not Find the Best Politician?

BADEN WURTTEMBERG

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Stuttgart

At One of the World's Longest-Running Local Protests

Image credit: Rewrite LA

Everyday People Will Get Paid to Design Their Own City Council

Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly

Photo image via Fox & Hounds Daily

WESTLAKE VILLAGE

COLUMN Building Friendship on Political Disagreement

An Appreciation of Joel Fox and Friends

Image credit Asia Democracy Chronicles

FAIRVIEW, PHILIPPINES

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How Data Centers Concern Communities

The Contest to Become Southeast Asia's Top Center Burdens Locals in Power Prices and Emissions

COLUMN: Dear Police Chief, Why Do You Want Me to Join a Gang?

By Foreclosing Legal Responses to Officer Abuses, A City's Top Cop Encourages Lawlessness

PANGASINAN, PHILIPPINES

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: How to Count the Absent

Southeast Asia Rights Advocates Are Forcibly Disappeared; Impunity Makes Monitoring Difficult

ZOCALO Theater in DC Is More Than the Kennedy Center

But Its Struggles Affect an Artistic Ecosystem