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ANKARA
NEWS: Two Turkish Cities Are Finalists for 'European Capital of Democracy'
Ankara and Denizli Join Brussels and Tirana on Short List
ADDIS ABABA
NEWSLETTER: The Planetocracy Is Coming, So Wear Your White Hats
Also: Impact Investing Against Democracy; Sub-Saharan Local Covenant; Cat-Mayor-Martyr
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
Image credit; Asia Democracy Chronicles
PANGASINAN, PHILIPPINES
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHORNICLES How to Count the Absent
Southeast Asia Rights Advocates Are Forcibly Disappeared; Impunity Makes Monitoring Difficult
NAPERVILLE
ZÓCALO: When Immigration Agents Come to the Suburbs
Raids and Deportations Upended My Sense of Safety. But My Community Fights Back
Photo credit: Nick Vlahos
ROCHESTER
NATIONAL CIVIC LEAGUE Lessons of a Translation Pilot in a Public Forum
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
HONG KONG
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES: A Fire to Remember
Hong Kong's Deadliest Fire in Decades Exposed Corruption—and Civil Society's Resilience
YOFF
LOCAL SNAPSHOT: Mayor Seydina Issa Laye Samb
'Every public franc spent must have a measurable impact on the lives of citizens'