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ANKARA
NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'
Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List
ADDIS ABABA
NEWSLETTER: The Planetocracy Is Coming, So Wear Your White Hats
Also: Impact Investing Against Democracy; Sub-Saharan Local Covenant; Cat-Mayor-Martyr
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
WASHINGTON DC
ZOCALO Theater in DC Is More Than the Kennedy Center
But Its Struggles Affect an Artistic Ecosystem
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
HONG KONG
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Fire to Remember
Hong Kong's Deadliest Fire in Decades Exposed Corruption—and Civil Society's Resilience
Global
Lass dich inspirieren: Aktivismus in Lateinamerika
Demokratie lebt vom Mitmachen.