Politics

The fallout from last week’s musings about the sheriff and a litany of ex-con officials who are back on the public payroll raises a lot of questions: What is illegal, and what’s just … kinda gross?

Mayor Parker’s Clean and Green initiative is a great slogan and even a potential game changer. But what about cleaning up local government?

How can voters and politicians better communicate with each other?

A political consultant on why Senator-elect Dave McCormick must continue the longtime incumbent’s legacy of bipartisan problem-solving for all Pennsylvanians

In an emotional post-election live podcast taping, former Mayor Michael Nutter of Philadelphia and former Mayor Kasim Reed of Atlanta talk with a New Yorker writer and the filmmaker of a documentary about Chicago’s first Black mayor

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member explains the threat far-right Christian nationalist groups represent to the separation of church and state

A policy analyst for the state’s free market think tank on how to grow Pennsylvania’s stagnant economy

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member interviews Filipina journalist and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Maria Ressa, author of How to Stand Up to a Dictator: The Fight for Our Future

Local progressives are taking aim at Bob Brady and the Democratic machine. Is that the conversation they should be having or does this week's Free Library visit from Bill Clinton suggest another way?

Doomism will get us nowhere. Here’s what we can do to continue protecting the environment