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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

NEWSLETTER: Facts Won't Save Democracy; Nor Will Voting; City Twin on Fire

Also: 'Allocracy," Ukraine Farming, Municipal Mandates Exceed Borders

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Dracula Discută Democrație

'Democrația și vampirii au multe în comun'

Show Us the Money

Health care and a lack of democracy.

20 Days in the Caucasus

Inspiring struggles for democracy in lands of conflict.

Photo Credit: George M. Groutas via Flickr CC BY 2.0 Deed

What is 'Smart Democracy'?

Also: how to meet me; summer school, vampires, comparing French and Nepali towns

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Dracula Talks Democracy

'Democracy and vampires have much in common' says 600-year-old count

My Local Ballot Is Too Big!

What to do about voter confusion? Here's a tool.

I Wrote the Magna Carta

And You Can Too, Democracy Cities!

Pressure Inspires City Democracy

Don't underestimate Turkey, Ukraine, or democracy cities.

The Revolution in Northern Syria

An extraordinary magazine story on the enduring but unlikely feminist revolution in and around Rojava