CitizenCast
Ali Velshi on What Project 2025 Means For An Independent Press
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks to Vox Media's Zack Beauchamp about how another Trump administration might damage one of America's most important institutions
By Ali VelshiHow to Really Run a City
In the latest episode of our podcast, former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter and Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed talk to education reformer and former Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza on what students really need … now.
Ali Velshi Banned Book Club on Gay Penguins and Book Bans
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with authors Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell, authors of And Tango Makes Three, to talk about the contemporary children's classic about non traditional families and the efforts to ban it
By Ali VelshiAli Velshi Banned Book Club Banning The Poet X
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with National Young Person’s Poet Laureate Elizabeth Acevedo about young women learning the art of self-expression against the grain of faith and family
By Ali VelshiA Special Episode on Citizenship
In the latest episode our podcast, former mayors Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and Kasim Reed of Atlanta revisit past guests for a reminder about what really matters in America today
Ali Velshi Lays Out the Stakes of the 2024 Election
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member says it's OK to be concerned about Biden's age. But the larger concern is democracy itself
By Ali VelshiAli Velshi Compares the Supreme Court to Tinkerbell
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member warns that SCOTUS's failure to maintain public trust is an enormous threat to a functioning government and the very survival of our nation
By Ali VelshiAli Velshi Reminds Us of Draconian Restrictions to Immigration a Hundred Years Ago
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member reminds us that we've been here before, restricting immigration and deporting immigrants is dangerous to our future and economy
By Ali VelshiAli Velshi Banned Book Club on Erasing Immigrant Stories
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member speaks with Laurence Yep about the immigrant experience in America and how important those stories are to our history
By Ali VelshiAli Velshi Banned Book Club Reads The Glass Castle
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member sits down with Jeannette Walls to talk about her provocative memoir and the complications and ugliness of real life
By Ali Velshi