Politics

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
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
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
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
“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
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
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