Democracy Local

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
Bjarney Högnadóttir and her husband are opening the first grocery store after the evacuation
GRINDAVIK (ICELAND)
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Grindavik
Icelandic Harbor City, Evacuated After Volcanic Eruption, May Come Back
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
Credit: Via Flickr https://flickr.com/photos/johnkay/3207754217/
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
DELHI
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Battered But Not Beaten
Forced out of Myanmar and Perhaps Soon India, Rohingya Women Refugees Find Ways to Rise
MINATO CITY
LOCAL SNAPSHOT: To Rent a Tokyo Field, Commit to Peace
A Guide for Baseball Reservations Has Non-nuclear Provisions
READINGS
Wayne's New (Democracy) Word: Allocracy
'Allocracy': Governance by Allotted Assembly.
SAN JOSE
COLUMN No More Presidents
A Letter to Gavin Newsom on Why He Shouldn't Be President.