Can Larry Krasner be Pro-Democracy and Anti-Debate?

The DA, who is running for a third term, has so far refused to participate in any televised debates with his opponent Pat Dugan this campaign season. Don’t voters deserve at least that?

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

Josh Shapiro and Moral Clarity

Wouldn’t the Governor’s principled call for it in the New York Times and elsewhere best be served by retiring the phrase “antisemitism?"

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal

Polling Places in Jails

A way to get more people voting and make our communities safer? That’s what happened with a Colorado program Pennsylvania could easily replicate

By Malcolm Burnley

Local Actions Can Save Us from Federal Pullback

Drexel’s Metro Finance chief on what places like Boston, New York and even Alabama are doing in the wake of funding and workforce cuts from President Trump's federal government

By Bruce Katz
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Ali Velshi — Do We Now Live in a Surveillance State?

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Caitlin Dickerson and Petra Molnar about the growing surveillance state and how big-donor tech companies are threatening due process

By Ali Velshi
The Fix

For Sale — Your State Legislature

Democratic Rep. Solomon, Republican Rep. Rigby and activist Rabbi Michael Pollock are all pushing for a ban on egregious gifts to legislators — as in most other states. It is the 38th attempt at a gift ban in the last quarter century

By Larry Platt
Guest Commentary

“Our Job Just Got Harder”

But the work has never been more important, says The Rosenbach Museum & Library Director, despite — or because of — nearly $600,000 in federal funding cuts

By Kelsey Scouten Bates
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Ali Velshi Explains How Even With The Tariff Pause, Prices Went Up

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member reintroduces our hypothetical American "Betty" to hash out the damage that tariffs are causing our economy, despite the "pause"

By Ali Velshi
New Urban Order

Pushing Back on the Antisocial

Instead, let’s claim the term "prosocial" and start to repair people, not just things

By Diana Lind

How Mayor Parker Wants to Spend Your Money in 2026

A visual representation of the per-resident cost of the City's budget — and how it has changed from last year — in partnership with Committee of Seventy

By Nick Hand