Stories

GRENOBLE
WHERE IN THE WORLD IS BRUNO KAUFMANN? Grenoble
Visiting the Most Democratic City in France
Germany
The People’s Candidate
The United Nations is choosing its next Secretary-General at perhaps the most precarious moment in its history. The process tells us something uncomfortable about the institution the successful candidate will inherit: the UN has...
Image credit Asia Democracy Chronicles
FAIRVIEW, PHILIPPINES
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How Data Centers Concern Communities
The Contest to Become Southeast Asia's Top Center Burdens Locals in Power Prices and Emissions
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN: Dear Police Chief, Why Do You Want Me to Join a Gang?
By Foreclosing Legal Responses to Officer Abuses, A City's Top Cop Encourages Lawlessness
PANGASINAN, PHILIPPINES
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: How to Count the Absent
Southeast Asia Rights Advocates Are Forcibly Disappeared; Impunity Makes Monitoring Difficult
WASHINGTON DC
ZOCALO Theater in DC Is More Than the Kennedy Center
But Its Struggles Affect an Artistic Ecosystem
ROCHESTER
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: Lessons of a Translation Pilot in a Public Forum
NAPERVILLE
ZÓCALO: When Immigration Agents Come to the Suburbs
Raids and Deportations Upended My Sense of Safety. But My Community Fights Back
Photo credit: LAPD, 2022
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN: The 50-Year-Old Police Chokehold We Can't Escape
A Court Precedent Defending LA Police Abuses Now Defends Federal Raids on Its People
LOS ANGELES
REPORT: Land Use Decision-Making in the LA City Charter
Resident Priorities From the Rewrite LA Mini-Assembly
Bulgaria
Media Literacy and Democratic Participation: the case of Bulgaria
The EU for Global National Citizens Panel took place in Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, on November 28th, 2025,...
DECATUR
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE: How Local Volunteers Changed the City Charter
One-Third of Decatur's Charter Commission Were Community Members Selected by Sortition