As part of a wider investigation into how social and political systems can be reshaped, the LA-based Berggruen Institute is looking at how the political process in LA can be reformed in the wake of ...

Eliza Wilson is a little nervous as she draws the microphone close to her, but she is determined to share her life story — and its larger lessons — with a vital new audience. “My father was a disabled ...

The recent GOP Speakership debacle was a chaotic spectacle that has exposed the fragility of our democracy. It's become abundantly clear that extremism has taken hold, and this latest fiasco is just ...

Public Democracy Los Angeles, held a virtual meeting Tuesday to address the importance of making citizens’ assemblies in the city. A citizen’s assembly works to represent the multicultural city of LA ...

On a special episode (first released on January 15, 2025) of The Excerpt podcast: Citizen assemblies involve ordinary people participating in crafting policy solutions to community problems and have ...

Imagine a democracy where people come together and their voices are heard and are translated directly into policy. Frontline workers, doctors, teachers, friends, and neighbors — young and old — are ...

Last December, Yale political theorist Hélène Landemore traveled to her native France to help guide an assembly of French citizens charged with reconsidering the country’s laws on euthanasia and ...

Two members of the Citizens Convention on the End of Life arrive for the group’s meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron at the Elysee Palace, in Paris, April 3, 2023 (Sipa photo by Raphael ...