In late September, a dozen new students from Venezuela, some of the more than 15,000 asylum seekers bused to New York City by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, appeared at my child’s elementary school. At ...

Discussing participatory budgeting and its use when U.S. democracy is hanging by a thread. After the school shooting at Uvalde, and in the wake of the police murder of George Floyd, residents of many ...

Fallows, for example, finds that democracy innovations like participatory budgeting can play an important role in the local revival he has been documenting. And Rahman and Gilman, in their excellent ...

Evanston received $43 million from the American Rescue Plan Act in 2021 and 2022 to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hoping to identify areas of need, the city put $3 million toward a novel solution: ...

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Re “It shouldn’t be this hard to run for governor in Mass.” (Editorial, May 12): Any Massachusetts citizen can register to vote and run as an independent. The state convention is a way for grass-roots ...