Guest Commentary

It’s Philadelphia’s Big Housing Moment. Who’s Keeping Watch?

H.O.M.E. is Philadelphia's most ambitious housing investment in decades. A civic infrastructure consultant argues that the city still lacks something essential: an independent account of housing system health.

By Amanda Soskin
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Ali Velshi On Boycotting The Corporations Enabling ICE

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member covers how businesses support ICE and what Americans can do to hold them accountable with the power of economic withdrawal

By Ali Velshi

Fun Things to Do in Philly this Week and Weekend

This week in Philly our theaters are packed with new productions, it's NoLibs Restaurant Week, the Philadelphia Auto Show rolls on, Jeannine Cook is at Wilder for her debut novel, and I hear there's a big football game on Sunday

By Christina Griffith

“It Hasn’t Slowed Down For Us”

How community organizers in Philly plan to keep gun violence down in 2026

By Mensah M. Dean
Business for Good

FSH Technologies

A Facebook alum wanted to do work that matches her values. Now her Philly tech company is helping the city’s small businesses navigate a new tax landscape

By Courtney DuChene
Citizen Must Reads

Your Weekly Guide to Surviving the News

The upside of China’s energy downfall, street battle in Minnesota, millennials off the internet, and a Philadelphian we effing loved and more smart stories that explain what happened this week

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff
Citizen of the Week

Mandy Mango, Drag Diva

This winter, the millions of viewers of RuPaul’s Drag Race learned what hundreds of Philadelphians living with HIV already knew: Philly’s rising star is a queen for the people

By Gianna Voges

Are You There, Constitution Center? It’s Me, a Citizen

Jeffrey Rosen is out. Now, the NCC must decide if it will remain a genteel place of scholarship or become the antidote to the threat to democracy

By Larry Platt
Guest Commentary

Meet Kirk Milhoan. And Be Afraid

The renowned CHOP immunologist dissects a recent interview with the new chair of the CDC’s vaccine advisory committee

By Paul Offit

Lessons in Resistance for Philadelphia from Minneapolis

What ideas can Philly steal from the years-old protest movement in the Minnesota city?

By Bradford Pearson