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What Young People Are Seeing, Changing and Questioning
A tote bag. A shrinking river. Plastic waste. A community where rubbish is not collected on time. These might seem like unrelated things, but they all appeared when we asked young people a simple question: what does protecting...
MUNICH
THE PLANETARY PUEBLO: A New Model of Local Democracy and Governance
A New Model for a Locality That Governs Itself and the World
Image of Botswana
Botswana
A Beacon in the South: Why Botswana Is the Right Home for the 2026 Global...
Ahead of the 2026 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, Democracy International looks at the country that...
Photo from Democracy Camp
Germany
Young People Making Participation Accessible to Everyone
Wouldn’t it be great for people to have a tool that would help them determine which mediums of citizen...
Citizens for Climate
Germany
Insights from two Citizens for Climate Participation Pop-Ups in Denmark...
  Climate change is a challenge that affects everyone, but not everyone gets the same opportunity to have a...
INDEPENDENCE, CA
COLUMN Modest Proposal: Reopen Manzanar
WW2 Concentration Camps Fit ICE's Needs Tody
TORONTO
READINGS Free Toronto, Free the World?
A Local Report Offers Framework for Global Municipal Autonomy
JAKARTA
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES How to Retool for Resilient Democracy
Defending Democracy Needs More Savvy and Sacrifice From Civil Society
CASABLANCA
COLUMN On Board the High-Speed Al Boraq to Tangier
Don't Make the Perfect the Enemy of the Fast
COLOMBO
ASIA DEMOCRACY CHRONICLES Memories OK, Déjà Vu No
Sri Lanka Struggles with Past, Copes With Present
VIENNA
COLUMN Arnold, Kamala, and A Little Night Music
'We Are Unstoppable' And Other Climate Optimism
MANCHESTER
READINGS The Paradox of Andy Burnham's Localism
The Symbolism of New PM's Agenda Is Undermined by Its Finance