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TEXAS CITY, CALIFORNIA
COLUMN Chuck Norris Is Dead. 'Breaker! Breaker!' Will Live Forever
Why a Low-Budget 1977 Film About Trucking, Local Government, and Revolt Keeps Getting Better
Aspen, Colorado, city hall. Photo by Joe Mathews
NAIROBI
NEWSLETTER: Facts Won't Save Democracy; Nor Will Voting; City Twin on Fire
Also: 'Allocracy," Ukraine Farming, Municipal Mandates Exceed Borders
AUCKLAND
READINGS: A Kiwi Plan for 'Super Cities'
A Worldwide Consolidation of Cities Has an Ambitious New Chapter in New Zealand
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BUNGO REGENCY, Jambi
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Eased Out as Carbon Finance Scales Up
In Sumatra, Local Communities Who Protected Forests Don't Get the Financial Benefits
SANTIAGO
READINGS: Will AI Produce a Permanent Plebiscite?
AI Will Accelerate Direct Democracy and Destroy It
Via Dane Waters
EL CIELO
READINGS: Is Heaven Governed Well?
A Review of Democracy Giant Dane Waters' New Novel, The Sunday Shift
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DUBLIN
Column: Can Candidates Apply Hometown Success to a Stagnant State?
Eric Swalwell's Dublin Might Be a Model for California. But He Won't Talk
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