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
Image of people participating in a conversation
South Africa
Reviving the Promises of the Freedom Charter: Participatory Democracy for...
The Freedom Charter, adopted by activist groups in 1955 during the early years of the apartheid regime,...
Germany
PODCAST: Germany's MMP Electoral System and Its Reform with Armin...
Global
Democracy Local: An Introduction
Welcome to a new planetary publication, about local democracy, and of, by and for everyday people governing...
USA
EL PAÍS: Kamala y California
Durante su carrera en el Estado, la actual candidata presidencial se limitó a hacer su trabajo de forma...
Ride the Democratic Wave poster by Democracy International
European Union
Turning the Tide: The Need for Democracy Champions in the European...
Ahead of the European elections, we ran our Democratic Wave campaign together with FIDE – Europe to mobilise...
USA
COLUMN: Rudest City Council Ever?
An extraordinary report on local misbehavior
Laos
A Mine and the Village Water
A leak from a rare-earth mine threatens villages in northern Laos
USA
Local Measures Need a Counter
Two contradicatory ballot measures teach us better than one
Pakistan
The Longest Sit-In
An agreement, and confusion, follows protests in a border city
Denmark
NEWSLETTER: Free Alexei Gorinov
Summer films, songs & reading, in local democracy. Also: Dem Next to Kashmir