Democracy Local

LOS ANGELES
VIDEO Voices From the First Citizens Assembly in Los Angeles
The sortition lottery-selected group urged historic changes to LA's charter
CALIFORNIA
COLUMN Reform Is Coming. Just Wait 100 Years
California Spends the 2020s Instituting Reforms From the 1920s.
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
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
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
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.
Photo by Joe Mathews
LOS ANGELES
LA Charter Assembly Recommends 1st Council Expansion in a Century
L.A.'s First-Ever Civic Assembly Calls for Expanding the City Council—And Watching It More Closely
Photo by The Alaska Landmine - Flickr via Wikimedia, CC 2.0.
ANCHORAGE
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE Walking a Mile in Each Other's Words
Better Public Meetings in Alaska's Biggest City