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LOS ANGELLES
Everyday People Will Get Paid to Change Their Own City Council
Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly
ANKARA
NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'
Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List
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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
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WESTLAKE VILLAGE
COLUMN Building Friendship on Political Disagreement
An Appreciation of Joel Fox and Friends
LOS ANGELES
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
NAPERVILLE
ZÓCALO: When Immigration Agents Come to the Suburbs
Raids and Deportations Upended My Sense of Safety. But My Community Fights Back
ROCHESTER
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: Lessons of a Translation Pilot in a Public Forum
Photo credit: LAPD, 2022
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN: The 50-Year-Old Police Chokehold We Can't Escape
A Court Precedent Defending LA Police Abuses Now Defends Federal Raids on Its People
LOS ANGELES
REPORT: Land Use Decision-Making in the LA City Charter
Resident Priorities From the Rewrite LA Mini-Assembly
Bulgaria
Media Literacy and Democratic Participation: the case of Bulgaria
The EU for Global National Citizens Panel took place in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, on November 28th, 2025,...
DECATUR
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: How Local Volunteers Changed the City Charter
One-Third of Decatur's Charter Commission Were Community Members Selected by Sortition