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Democracy Resilience Doesn't Exist; Your AI 'Civic Assistant': Write Us a Letter From World War 3

Also: Crypto in a Kenyan slum, intro of the Planetary Panchayat, West Sahara boomtown

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

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For You and Europe, a New 'Idea Laboratory'

Half of the European Parliament's members are new. This is a moment for your ideas.

ADC: Firing the Messenger

The Wall Street Journal fires a Hong Kong journalist who headed an association of reporters, setting a...

COLUMN: No Camping

Divided localities agree on an enemy: those camping outside.

A Deliberate Provocation; An Experiment in India

Also: an amalgamation assembly and "anticipatory" democracy

ADC: War Reaches Myanmar's Urban Communities

Civil War, once confined to rural areas, forces city dwellers to seek refuge.

VLAHOS: Making Public Meetings More Deliberative

How to Bring Public Meetings Into the 21st Century

SPEECH 'Come With Us If You Want to Live'

Why the deliberative democracy movement needs to get more aggressive

NOEMA: China's Hinterland Becomes a Dreamscape

A Swiss-style village, a Prague-like city, and other new urban places in China

COLUMN A Tale of Two Cities, Bay Area Edition

Kamala Harris' Oakland approaches the White House. The real Oakland struggles with local democracy and...

Ancient Rituals, Modern Governance

Not enough Mongolian women are being elected to local office