The Citizen Recommends: We Are America March

From Independence Hall to the Capitol steps, 100 people trek 160 miles to prove that solidarity isn’t just a word — it’s a journey

The New Urban Order: The Bourgeois Bunker

The upper middle class isn't leaving cities. They’re just eschewing the civic reasons they chose to live there in the first place

Can City Council Fix Our Reproductive Healthcare Crisis?

Federal and local funding cuts are decimating an already precarious healthcare landscape, especially for Philadelphia’s most vulnerable communities. City funding could help

Guest Commentary: A Powerful Path to Peace?

A local circular economy leader on the fallacy of the scarcity mindset behind Trump’s latest war in the Middle East

How to Celebrate Local News Day

The Philadelphia Citizen and Philadelphia magazine invite you to take part in this first-ever day of action. (But you can also celebrate tomorrow, and the day after that … )

My Voting Baggage

A Jefferson University student and super voter considers a wrongfully convicted neighbor who, like many incarcerated Pennsylvanians, went decades without being able to cast a ballot

Diversity is Democratic

A junior at the Academy at Palumbo makes a beautiful argument for a multi-lingual, multicultural city and nation. Our differences don’t just make us stronger — they’re also worth fighting for

Citizen of the Week: Deborah Burnham

Even before she experienced cancer herself, the retired Penn English professor had a knack for “magical” prompts to help patients write through their illness at the Abramson Cancer Center

Guest Commentary: A Region Rises Together — or Not at All

Last in economic mobility among the 50 largest U.S. metros and stagnant in job creation, Greater Philadelphia should, says a chamber of commerce chair and a former U.S. ambassador, unite to succeed