CitizenCast

With so many conservative states passing anti-transgender bills, MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi explains what gender-affirming care is and how it leads to a 73% reduction in suicide ideation.

Cherelle Parker spent three days behind bars after a DUI conviction over a decade ago. Here are some details to help you decide if that matters

In this guest commentary, the former mayor and governor endorses Rebecca Rhynhart for Mayor of Philadelphia. He also offers advice and a challenge on how she should govern.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi draws our attention to the rise in number and severity of wildfires. Could this be the year that we begin turning things around? 

In democracies, citizens ought not to idolize their electeds — even if they're people we really like. Philadelphia's mayoral race is no exception.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi explains what the founders were trying to do with the House of Representatives and why it's failing to live up to their designs. When a single representative is responsible for close to a million citizens, how can this be government by and for the people?

In last week's debate, Jeff Brown took heat for what he said about our Delco neighbor. But the problem is really about regionalism.

NBC10 Investigative Reporter Claudia Vargas sits down to talk tech and the future of Philly with Michael Ellison, CEO/founder of CodePath.org, a nonprofit transforming computer science education for underrepresented minorities at over 50 colleges and universities.

In this special interview edition, Citizen writer J.P. Romney sits down with David Thornburgh, Chair of Ballot PA (a campaign to repeal the closed primary system in Pennsylvania), to discuss why we need Unaffiliated, Independent and third-party voters so badly in this state.

Center City District's President/CEO Paul Levy R. on how the city is rebounding from the last three years — and what new leaders must do

On this episode of #VelshiBannedBookClub, MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi speaks with Julissa Arce about reclaiming her Mexican roots and writing her banned memoir "You Sound Like A White Girl."

What value is a true believer if they put ideology over reason and practical solutions?

City Bright Philadelphia is a neighborhood cleanup that's also about creating jobs and a path to financial stability — and you're invited

On this episode of Your City Defined, we look at why we have primaries, how they came to disenfranchise 1.2 million Pennsylvanians, and how they might change to allow everyone to vote.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi gives us a rundown of how long we've known human action has been changing the climate. We thought it would still take centuries for humanity to irreparably damage the planet. It may have taken just forty years.

On this episode of #VelshiBannedBookClub, MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi talks with Julia Alvarez, the award-winning author whose book, "How The Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents," has been on banned lists for almost 30 years.

There's only one candidate for Philadelphia mayor who has a clean, non-transactional style of governing

In this presentation from our Ideas We Should Steal Festival, Erin Harkey, Chicago's arts commissioner, talks about that city's Arts 77 program which uses city government to push public art

Looking at the election math, candidate messaging and campaign skills, the winner according to Katz will be...

Elaine Maimon believes Temple's next president must transform Temple into a model of 21st-century reform. Here's what needs to be done.

MSNBC host and Citizen board member Ali Velshi points out what is really causing American children harm. It's not books or photos of Michelangelo's David. Velshi looks to Japan as an example of adults taking an active role in protecting children in schools. 

In this episode of the Ultimate Job Interview, 6abc anchor Jim Gardner mediates a Q&A between the mayoral candidates where the candidates themselves (and a couple of audience members) ask the questions. 

Many Americans must fight cancer and their health insurance at the same time. One of our editors passionately explains how there is a cutting-edge treatment for glioblastoma, but insurance companies are prioritizing profit over healthcare.

Join us for part 2 of this emotional panel from our Ideas We Should Steal Festival. Hosted by Emily Bazelon, criminal justice reporter for the New York Times, we hear stories of hardship and redemption and a light at the end of the tunnel. Bazelon speaks with Marc Howard (director of Georgetown's Prisons and Justice Initiative) and Cherri Greg (co-founder of the Law and Justice Journalism Project)...

Dice Raw's New Freedom Theatre tells stories of Black Americans which are critical to understanding the American experience