Topic: Guest Commentary

District Attorney Larry Krasner responds to his opponent Carlos Vega's guest commentary on The Citizen last week

A May pre-trial hearing for a seven-year-old school funding lawsuit in Pennsylvania has a state politics watcher wondering: Could this finally mean more money for schools that need it?

Emma Copley Eisenberg, author and co-founder of Blue Stoop, the nonprofit that nurtures writers of all walks, pays tribute to the thing she’s missed most during the pandemic: her community.

It’s not enough for Hilco to promise it will create an environmentally safe commercial hub on the site of the 2019 South Philly explosion. All of us, a Penn PhD candidate insists, need to make sure it happens

A WURD radio host and entrepreneur reflects on the four “Fs” that have come to the forefront this year: family, finances, fitness and faith

Legislators in Harrisburg are working to disenfranchise voters across the state. As the Better Civics founder lays out, a federal bill could stop that—and make voting easier for millions

There have been 161 reported rapes in Philly already this year. Here, a victim of rape shares how the system has continued to fail her and other survivors.

Reflections on a year of writing virtually from the executive director of Mighty Writers, the nonprofit that empowers young people through the written word

A St. Joe’s math professor may lose his job after anonymously tweeting conservative views, including opposition to reparations. A Broad + Liberty contributor wonders: What happened to academic freedom?

The president and CEO of Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine on why we should mobilize medical students to jumpstart the vaccination rollout