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...
Photo Courtesy of IOPD
Newsletter
Democracy Resilience Doesn't Exist; Your AI 'Civic Assistant...
Also: Crypto in a Kenyan slum, intro of the Planetary Panchayat, West Sahara boomtown
SACRAMENTO
COLUMN Don't Run Kamala! Save Local Democracy Instead
VP Harris Should Start a New Authority to Defend Local Autonomy
LOS ANGELES
COLUMN What Churchill Would Tell a Besieged City
"We shall fight on the beach... on the freeways... and in the Home Depot parking lots"
LONGUEUIL (QUEBEC)
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE Even the Losers Embrace the Outcome
On Citizens' Assemblies and Losers' Consent
DEMOCRACY LOCAL
NEW BOOK "The U.S. vs. Us: Essays from California As It Leaves America
The debut book from Ostrich Farm Press, Democracy Local's book arm.
ALEPPO
COLUMN World War 3 Has Come to Your Hometown
Attacks by authoritarian national governments on their own cities aren't just local conflicts. They...
ALEPPO
NEWSLETTER Apocalyptic Democracy, Self-Defense; Worthy Books
Also: Jo-Burg Taxi War; Future Citizens. Assemble in The Gambia
RAZARWANI (Uri, Kashmir)
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Villages Live on Edge
Along the India-Pakistan Line of Control, Villages Are Disrupted and Shattered by Conflict
BOOK REVIEW
READINGS A Rashomon-Like Reference on Referendums
Understanding Referendums 
UNITED STATES
DEMOCRACY SOS Why We Need a City-State Revolution
America’s Urban Majority Is Disenfranchised. Here’s How to Fix It