Stories

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
USA
ARCHIVE Why Local Food Vendors Belong in Prison Yards
An inmate writes about how food connects a town and its prison.
India
ADC: Voicing Out Through Local Votes
Despite suspicions of dirty tactics by central govenrment, Kashmir's voters went to the polls during...
USA
MAP Healthy Democracy Ecosystem
The first comprehensive look at the organizations working to improve democracy in the U.S.
Global
Democracy Isn't Declining. The Nation-State Is
Local democracy increases—and offers an answer to the faltering nation-state
Pakistan
ADC: New Provincial Law Limits Rights, Press
Protection or Pressure?
USA
EVENT Civic Solitude: Why Democracy Needs Distance
Public discussion of the third book in philosopher Robert B. Talisse's democratic trilogy
Canada
VLAHOS: Three Ways to Strengthen Neighborhood Governance
Bottoms-up engagement, community intermediaries, and defeating geography are crucial, writes Nick Vlahos
Global
TRAINING EVENT Do It Yourself Democracy
Free webinars, in English, Spanish and German, Oct 8 and 22, in professional, organizational, and democratic...
Global
DEM NEXT: A First-Ever Tech-Assisted Assembly
Citizens assembly members get to work on youth homelessness in Deschutes County, Oregon
USA
COLUMN: No Camping
Divided localities agree on an enemy: those camping outside.