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Hungary election
Hungary
The opposition understood the assignment.
The Hungarian 3-step plan to beat an authoritarian.  Autocrats around the world will study Orbán’s successes: how to consolidate power over time, how to reward loyalists, how to weaken watchdogs, and how to loot the state while...
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Empowering Youth and Women for Elective Political Power in Nigeria
Following their earlier story, Children and Young People Living for Peace (CYPLP) returns with a second event contribution to the International Democracy Community. This September initiative marked International Democracy Day...
SACRAMENTO
COLUMN Draft Buffy
The California Governor's Race Is a Mess. So Why Not Find the Best Politician?
BADEN WURTTEMBERG
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Stuttgart
At One of the World's Longest-Running Local Protests
Image credit: Rewrite LA
LOS ANGELES
Everyday People Will Get Paid to Design Their Own City Council
Look for this Postcard in the Mail. Sortition Begins in Historic LA City Charter Assembly
Photo image via Fox & Hounds Daily
WESTLAKE VILLAGE
COLUMN Building Friendship on Political Disagreement
An Appreciation of Joel Fox and Friends
Image credit Asia Democracy Chronicles
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
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
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