In the Barcelona area, local governments and citizens are transforming municipal politics, finds Luke Stobart.

As news media face a crisis of legitimacy, reader supported alternatives offer a way forward, Chris Spannos writes.

Civil war, ISIS invasions, mountains of rubbish. Reem Haddad reports from Beirut.

Nick Dowson dismantles the notion that the private sector does things better.

A civil society lawsuit has ended the city's water sell-off. But the fight isn't over. Febriana Firdaus reports.

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