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It’s that time of year: We’re on the hunt for the most high-integrity workers employed by the City of Philadelphia. Nominate the most inspiring city workers you know, and they could be named a 2026 Integrity Icon

In his new book, author and thought leader Richard Vague tells the story of Thomas Willing, the most powerful figure in U.S. history you’ve never heard of. Join Vague and The Citizen for a book event April 14

Is this City-funded program — which also helps participants build job skills and rethink decisions — responsible Philadelphia’s declining homicide rate?

In all the talk over closing and fixing Philly schools, there is no mention of building new ones that might serve the community better into the future. Can we look to New York City and Boston for solutions we should steal?

The president of a free market think tank urges Pennsylvania to opt in to help students — both public and private — with school costs

The MS NOW host and Citizen board member talks with Jonathan White, former director of a federal unaccompanied child program, about a Texas facility reportedly flagged for inadequate medical care where pregnant teen migrants are being sent

This week in Philly, PhillyGRIT and James Beard's Taste America return, Seeking Profit and Power opens at Independence Seaport Museum, NCAA Basketball comes to town, plus Sh!t-faced Shakespeare, the Wedding Walk, and much more

Sure, the nation’s turning 250 this year. But so is our state’s most vital document — and Pennsylvania’s Constitution is, in many ways, the ultimate bulwark of your freedoms

A two-year-old Citizen story is at the heart of a hip hop debate between the music mogul and a bestselling author and public intellectual.

The immersive art experience transforms a long-vacant Old City bank into a maze of installations, performances, and strange encounters.