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Gonzales Youth Council members, past and present. Photo by Joe Mathews
GONZALES
COLUMN The Best City Council Never Grows Up
A Small Town's Powerful Youth Council Turns 10—And Opens a $28 Million Center
MEXICO CITY
COLUMN All Human Rights Are Local
As Nations Trample Rights, Cities Enshrine New Ones
National Election, Local Realities
Where 7 out of 8 mayoral candidates have a public security escort
Young Are Sick of Status Quo
Frustration and South Africa's election
'Local Democracy Is Freedom'
Assessing your own local democracy. 'Evil Does Not Exist' Outside Tokyo. A Caution from Bratislava. Bono for...
How Nepal Camps Deliver Health
Health camps deliver care in rural Nepal. But do they undermine local democracy?
#OurDemocracyLocal Kaelo Molefhe
The power of Kgotla.
Austria
#OurDemocracyLocal Erwin Mayer
Our new feature asks about your local democracy story.
#OurDemocracyLocal Andreea Apostu and Paul Marc
Andreea Apostu and Paul Marc
Botswana
Radical Democrats in Desert
Diamonds and deliberation.
COLUMN: Bono for Mayor
Local democracy is weak. A rock-star Dublin mayor could change that.
Ireland
COLUMN: Bono for Mayor
An elected Dublin mayor could change world