CitizenCast

To our presumptive Mayor-elect, Cherelle Parker: appointing a sanitation commissioner like NYC has done could help solve our trash problem

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi talks with Maulik Pancholy, whose book, "The Best At It," landed on banned book lists for examining the mental and sexual health of middle schoolers. 

Vivek Ramaswamy penned an op-ed on the dystopia in Kensington. It was full of laughable political pablum. But he was also kinda right.

A bipartisan bill in the state senate would legalize the sale and use of recreational marijuana. Here's why PA should do it

Elaine Maimon reflects on what it would take for selective colleges and universities to diversify their campuses.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi traces what the fossil fuel industries knew about climate change and when they knew it. Over the past forty years we've been living in a consolidated effort to recast the climate crisis as naturally occurring. 

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi demonstrates that third-party candidates tend to siphon off moderate voters from the two main parties. This could actually help Trump in his bid for the White House.

In the budget fight over school vouchers, House Dems have overplayed their hand politically and invited a mega-donor to flip their majority

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi talks with Angie Thomas about her young adult novel telling the story of a girl who witnessed a childhood friend killed in front of her at the hands of a police officer. The powerful themes landed this book on banned lists across the country.

Join our Mystery Shopper in the frustratingly difficult task of just trying to pay the PPA for their residential parking permit

A research study at SCI Chester is looking at how Scandinavian conditions could make U.S. prisons safer and reduce recidivism

"Bidenomics" is working, explains MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi. Red state senators are taking credit for successes in their states. Despite their opposing votes to Biden's infrastructure bill.

The Philadelphia Plan was the first federal affirmative action program. It was defended and implemented by Black Republican Arthur Fletcher, who argued that diversity was good for business.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi demonstrates that in the House of Representatives, loyalty to Donald Trump holds greater sway than actually governing. "This is Trump's House," Velshi says, "Speaker Kevin McCarthy is just living there."

Six years ago, the City adopted Vision Zero to eliminate pedestrian and cyclist deaths. Instead, they've gone up. Can we learn from Hoboken, New Jersey?

In the wake of this week's mass shooting in Southwest Philly, bullet control makes much more sense than the same-old gun control rhetoric

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi looks at the intense heat waves roiling the country and places the crisis in the context of the massively destructive Dust Bowl from almost a century ago. Climate change is here.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi digs into the presidential pardon of Richard Nixon by Gerald Ford to show the poor precedent it set. If Ford had let the investigations play out a little longer, it might not have signaled to future presidents that criminality would be tolerated in our chief executives. 

The Students for Fair Admissions' Supreme Court case that struck down affirmative action was not about fairness, it was about race.

Philly's Sustainable Business Network on how our next mayor and elected leaders can support values-driven small businesses in Philadelphia

Former Philadelphia Mayor Michael Nutter says last week's Supreme Court rulings should remind us of the power of elections—and voting in them

On this episode of #VelshiBannedBookClub, MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi invites Art Spiegelman on the show to discuss his Pulitzer-winning graphic novel, "Maus." Spiegelman's father survived the Holocaust and "Maus" is part memoir, part exploration of generational trauma. "How," Velshi asks, "is a man whose father survived the Holocaust seeing his book about the Holocaust banned i...

Does Josh Shapiro's budget-time support of school vouchers show he's got political game to match his inspiring I-95 crisis management?

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi highlights some of the most damning evidence from Trump's latest indictment, and shows how claiming the "weaponization of everything," from the National Archives to the FBI, has become the last refuge of Republican defenders.

On this episode of our acclaimed podcast, "How To Really Run A City," recorded live at the National Conference of Black Mayors, we ask: Have you ever thrown up your hands over gentrification, convinced there's no way to avoid ousting long-time residents?  T ake heart . Have you ever thought redlining, while technically illegal, will invariably continue to permeate societies without penalty?  Take...