Democracy Local

MEMO We Govern the Way We Campaigned: Together

The Question of Your Transition, Mr. Mayor-Elect, Is How to Institutionalize the Democratic Energy That Brought You Here

The Technocrat and The Local Can Be Friends

Democracy Local's year-end poem is about the relationship at the heart of local governance

ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: Floating People, Floating Lives

Manta Fisherfolk Spend Lives on Boats Along the Bukhainagar River, a front line of climate crisis

photo via Wikimedia Common, CC 4.0

POLL Which City Should Be the New Home of the UN Headquarters?

With the U.S. Falling Into Autocracy, the U.N. Needs a New City to Call Home. What's Your Choice?

LOCAL SNAPSHOT: Mayor Luis Barcala

'We apply AI to make urban governance more people-centered'

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VITORIA GASTEIZ

LOCAL SNAPSHOT: ALDA's Antonella Valmorbida

'The Local Space Is the Space Of Innovation'

Photo by Joe Mathews

BRAMPTON, ONTARIO

LOCAL SNAPSHOT: Deputy Mayor Harkirat Singh

'It's A Three-Year Roadmap. We'll See How Effective These AI Public Projects Are'

Photo credit CC 4.0 by Tehran Picture Agency

LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Alireza Zakani

'Small Steps at Local Scale Can Be a Starting Point to Huge Transformation'

Photos by Bruno Kaufmann

WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Gothenburg

The World's Biggest Local Democracy Unit, on the Swedish West Coast

Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons, Sept. 21, 2025. CC BY-SA 4.0

COLUMN Letter from 2027—How the Children's Revolt Went Global

The 'One Piece' Flag and the Kids Revolt Will Take Down Trump, and Authoritarianism

Photo by Joe Mathews

LOCAL SNAPSHOT Mayor Olena Sydorenko

'The War Has Not Stopped Openness. The War Has Made Openness Essential'

LOCAL SNAPSHOT: Mayor Joy Belmonte

'Changes Depend on the Smallest Level of Government'