CitizenCast
Ali Velshi Explains Abortion is a Life-saving Medical Treatment
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member on why every American with the potential to get pregnant is in grave danger
By Ali Velshi
How to Really Run a City — What If a Bullet Cost $5,000?
In the latest episode of our podcast, former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter and former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed explore an idea New Jersey legislator Bonnie Watson Coleman and comedian Chris Rock have in common
“They Are Still With Us, In A Way”
In the first episode of a new Citizen podcast about the survivors and co-victims of gun violence, we meet Laura Madeleine, who turned her terror over a school shooting into the Soul Shots Portrait Project. The seventh exhibition of the Philadelphia chapter is on display until August 27
By Julien Suaudeau
Ali Velshi Inside Project 2025 and Schedule F
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member outlines how Schedule F dismantles the civil service system and hands the president unprecedented power
By Ali Velshi
Ali Velshi Inside Project 2025’s Plan for the Department of Justice
The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks to The Nation's Elie Mystal about how another Trump administration might damage one of America's most important institutions
By Ali Velshi
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 Velshi
How 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 Velshi
Ali 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 Velshi
A 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