Ideas We Should Steal

Uniting Higher Ed To Protect Science, Education — and Democracy

A longtime university president calls on Pennsylvania colleges to follow the lead of UCLA and the Big Ten by joining together to fight attacks on higher ed

By Elaine Maimon
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Ali Velshi Explains which Items Trump’s Tariffs Make More Expensive

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member talks with Investopedia’s Caleb Silver about how the average American is being impacted by Trump's tariffs and rising prices

By Ali Velshi
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Ali Velshi Explains Why Conspiracists Are Turning On Trump

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member dissects the MAGA monster Trump created and how it's turned on him in the wake of the Epstein Files debacle

By Ali Velshi

Is Trump Targeting Welders Now?

A provision of the President’s One Big Ugly Act threatens to disrupt shipbuilding at Philly’s Navy Yard. A longtime university president bemoans yet another attack on post-high school education

By Elaine Maimon
How To Really Run A City

One City’s Answer to Tribalism

Denver, Colorado Mayor Mike Johnston talks about coming together in divided times with former Philly Mayor Michael Nutter and former Atlanta Mayor Kasim Reed

By J.P. Romney

Shapiro’s Choice

Trump’s so-called Big Beautiful Bill contains a free money, opt-in school choice program for governors. Will ours redefine the politics of education for Democrats by taking advantage of it?

By Larry Platt
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Ali Velshi Asks if Medicaid Recipients Can Just Replace Farm Workers

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member covers how Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins believes immigrant farm workers can be replaced by Medicaid recipients

By Ali Velshi

Prevent Another Threat to American Education

Get off your beach chair, put down your mango margarita, and call your Senators one more time before summer recess, urges a longtime university president

By Elaine Maimon
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Ali Velshi Covers the First Six Months of the Trump Economy

The MSNBC host and Citizen board member joins Caleb Silver of Investopedia to discuss the current economic good, the bad, and the ugly

By Ali Velshi

Be a Patriot, Not a Parrot

Taking care of your neighbor isn’t socialism. It’s American.

By Patrick J. Murphy