CitizenCast

Traveling 6,000 miles is the only way for some Israeli citizens to have their voices heard

In a special edition of the podcast, Lauren McCutcheon, deputy editor here at The Citizen, comes onto the show to give a lightning breakdown of the two ballot questions you'll see when you walk into the booth on November 3.

On this episode of Big Rube's Philly, Reuben Harley chats with Jakai Bishop, a North Philadelphian who went from "Top Model" to Philly construction sites. "I learned so much from working in a male-dominated industry," she said. Don't miss this insightful conversation with one of Big Rube's most charismatic friends.

An analysis of 311 help request tickets proves it is possible to provide great and timely quality of life services in every neighborhood of the city

Facebook has been under investigation for years for its contributions to societal harm. Ali Velshi sits down with Roger McNamee the executive producer of The Social Reckoning , a new film shining the spotlight on tech leaders and their pursuit of political power.

Increased library funding, additional public green space and more are on the general election ballot in the collar counties. We break down the major suburban ballot questions and why Philadelphians should care.

"They just ruined it." Inside the epic collapse of the 200-year-old museum.

The 2026 midterms may mean the end of Pennsylvania's split legislature. If so, you'll see effects on affordability, election reform, marijuana and more. Here's the breakdown.

How H. Chase Lenfest and an expanding circle of Philly-based supporters are leveraging smart partnerships to bring prosperity to Hunting Park and East Tioga

With the release of Nathan Fielder's "You Can See Everything," the spotlight has landed back on Elizabeth Holmes. A 2016 presentation to the American Association for Clinical Chemistry offers a very different look at the Theranos CEO.

From voter intimidation to malfunctioning machines to polls that open too late, we take a dive into what's legal, what's not legal, and what you can do about it in this special interview edition. You can RSVP to the October 20th Election Protection & De-Escalation Training being put on by The Philadelphia Citizen and Changing the Conversation here.

The Trump administration is saying the high price of diesel (and all the inflated costs that go with it), is because Ukraine is hitting Russian energy facilities. Ali Velshi shows that simply is not true.

PETA has asked Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle Parker to put the kibosh on the poisoning of those vile four-legged varmints and take a wholly different approach.

Matt Mahan, the wildly popular mayor of San Jose, California, was recently reelected with a whopping 87 percent of the vote. How do you get to what Citizen Co-founder Larry Platt  jokingly called (echoing The Daily Show host Jon Stewart) "Vladimir Putin numbers?" As Mahan laid out on the latest episode of How To Really Run A City, hosted by former Mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and Kasim Re...

On this Citizen segment of Evening WURDs, Dr. James Peterson invites onto the show Nafees Norris, named a recent Citizen of the Week. Norris was the first Black student accepted into Thomas Jefferson University's Biopharmaceutical Engineering Master's Program. After graduation he had a choice: continue in the biotech industry or start his own venture geared towards exposing young people — particul...

On this episode of Ideas We Should Steal, ten states have legalized this energy- and money-saving home technology. Should PA become the first swing state to do so? 

A read of our City's 2,000-page constitution reveals an accidental anthropology of the weird, outdated and pointless

A veteran movie critic previews the coming 10-day, three-venue movie extravaganza as "one of the richest festivals in recent memory"

According to an explosive report from consumer protection advocates, Walmart filed several patents that would aid personalized surge pricing (electronic shelf labels) by tracking customers in stores and online through their cell phones. Ali Velshi breaks it down.

The fall of Larry Krasner has produced a hero for our times. Meantime, recent headlines concerning another judge? Not so heroic.

What do you do if you want to get workers to stop cutting down a tree? If you're one citizen in West Philly, you block their way with your body.

On this Citizen segment of Evening WURDs with Dr. James Peterson, renowned CHOP immunologist called in to discuss vaccines, chicken soup and RFK Jr.

Hannibal Collins lived with sickle cell anemia for 37 years. It was only after his death that his mother discovered how little the world knows about the disease.

Tom and Judy Kleinman produced Operation Mincemeat, Sunset Blvd. and Evita on Broadway. Now this eminently entrepreneurial Philadelphia couple plans to foster the next generation and keep their love for theater alive in their hometown.

Upper Roxborough is the last rural corner of Philadelphia, a place where forests and fields reign. Squeezed by development, how much longer can it last?