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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 constitute a global war.
WHITEHORSE
FIDE-NORTH AMERICA Citizens Assembly Insights from Yukon
The Importance of a Chair and an Insight Committee
SRINAGAR (KASHMIR)
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES A Long, Long Night in the Valley
Beneath the roaring jets lies a valley haunted by unending violence
Photo credit: Mersin, Turkey, participation project, one of the winners of prizes at the International Observatory of Participatory Democracy. Photo via IOPD
MERSIN (TURKEY)
NEWSLETTER Democracy Resilience Doesn't Exist; Your AI 'Civic...
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
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 
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