Elections
The Key To PA’s Power in D.C.?
The state is on track to lose another Congressional seat in 2030 if we don’t stanch our population drain. Could the solution be … more housing?
By Jon Geeting
The Woman Republicans Hope Can Beat Josh Shapiro
State Treasurer Stacy Garrity — who received the most votes of any PA candidate ever in her reelection bid last year — may already be the Commonwealth’s most successful female politician of all time. But is that enough?
By Courtney DuChene
What’s Judicial Retention? Who’s Running?
Current members of the PA Supreme, Superior and Commonwealth Court have a unique place on the general election ballot
By Courtney DuChene
Happy Birthday. Thank You
The Citizen turns 10 today! Here, 10 ways you have helped us make an impact in the last decade
By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Who is Pat Dugan?
The multiyear veteran of the Municipal Court (and U.S. Army) is running against incumbent Larry Krasner in the race for District Attorney of Philadelphia
By Courtney Duchene and Lauren McCutcheon
Saving Democracy by Canvassing … All the Time
The deep canvassers of Changing the Conversation Together have been able to turn out the vote before big elections. Could doing their work year-round boost civic engagement and voter turnout in the long term?
By Courtney DuChene
Let Independent Voters Vote
TV commentator Michael Smerconish is one of four unaffiliated Pennsylvanians suing the state to open our primaries. Here’s why he got involved
By Michael Smerconish
The Only Thing Better Than a Closed Primary? No Primary
A local pundit offers a contrarian way to choose our political candidates
By Kyle Sammin
Philadelphia, America’s Democracy Laboratory — Again
The PA Speaker of the House of Representatives on why Hillary Clinton, Josh Shapiro and PA lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle just started a voting access revolution, in Philly
By Joanna McClinton
Philadelphia Bar Association Responds to Bob Brady
The legal organization’s chancellor argues the way they decide to recommend judicial candidates is not what the Democratic City Committee chair thinks it is
By Katayun Jaffari