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LOS ANGELES
COLUMN The Mayor From Jaws Can Save Our City
Larry Vaughn Is Perfect for a City Determined to Ignore Serious Threats
BANGKOK
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Across Asia, Youth Demand for Reform
Asia Democracy Network's 2026 Democracy Overview Tackles, Youth and Power Across Asia
LILLE
NEWS: World's First Chair in Comparative Direct Democracy
Academic and Democratic History Is Made by Scholar
HANFORD
COLUMN Remember Mussel Slough!
A 1880 Shootout In Rural California Inspired a New Era of Government
BEIJING
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES A Mad Way of Gagging Critics
Insurance Scandal Spotlights How Chinese Authorities Detain Dissidents in Psychiatric Facilities
CHENGDU
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Complainants Confined to Psychiatric Detention
Local Authorities in China Put Complainants in Psychiatric Detention 
DELHI
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Battered But Not Beaten
Forced out of Myanmar and Perhaps Soon India, Rohingya Women Refugees Find Ways to Rise
Bjarney Högnadóttir and her husband are opening the first grocery store after the evacuation
GRINDAVIK (ICELAND)
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Grindavik
Icelandic Harbor City, Evacuated After Volcanic Eruption, May Come Back
MINATO CITY
LOCAL SNAPSHOT: To Rent a Tokyo Field, Commit to Peace
A Guide for Baseball Reservations Has Non-nuclear Provisions
READINGS
Wayne's New (Democracy) Word: Allocracy
'Allocracy': Governance by Allotted Assembly.
SAN JOSE
COLUMN No More Presidents
A Letter to Gavin Newsom on Why He Shouldn't Be President.
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LOS ANGELES
LA Charter Assembly Recommends 1st Council Expansion in a Century
L.A.'s First-Ever Civic Assembly Calls for Expanding the City Council—And Watching It More Closely