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FIDE-NORTH AMERICA Citizens Assembly Inisghts from Yukon

The Importance of a Chair and an Insight Committee

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

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COLUMN Indonesia's Interim Plot Against Local Democracy

Decentralisation made Indonesia democratic. Now the national government uses military and intelligence...

You and Me (and Local Democracy) Against the World

Also: Bogota and Mumbai advances, beyond-human experiments and a democracy capital switch.

The Hague Mayor Jan van Zenen attending a rainbow flag raising ceremony at the U.S Embassy The Hague.

COLUMN A Local Coalition to Tear the Fascists Down?

No province or city can beat the far-right alone.

ZÓCALO: Can We Move Climate-Challenged Cities?

Ancient Examples Show It’s Possible to Transplant Metropolises—But Costs Are Steep

READINGS Cairo Call for Action, on Local Housing

Local democracy has failed to produce sufficient housing everywhere. A Cairo gathering suggests ways forward

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Jirga for Justice

A Pashtun civil rights group holds a huge deliberative gathering to tackle community problems from land grabs...

LETTER A New Golden Age of Local Democracy?

The takeover of elections by the rich offers an opening.

Elon Musk Picked on the Wrong Local Agency

Voter-created commission to protect California's coast could be a planetary model.

Why Trumpism Had Already Won

Protecting democracy requires futuristic vision, not co-opting authoritarian ideas.

FUTURE OF WHERE The Exurban Metropolis

Cities and suburbs have evolved to be sustainable. Can exurbs do the same?