If These Two Could Become Friends…

What does America need on Thanksgiving 2025? Civility, kindness and open-mindedness, of the kind demonstrated by political enemies-turned-best friends Fred Guttenberg and Joe Walsh

By Courtney DuChene
Watch

Citizen Chairman David Cohen Invites You To Come Along For the Ride

The former Ambassador to Canada spoke at The Citizen’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival about the importance of free press, quality journalism and Philadelphia in our American story

By David Cohen
How to Really Run a City

Leading a City …With Jokes

A live Ideas We Should Steal Festival taping of our podcast with Rochester Hills, Michigan Mayor Bryan Barnett made one thing clear: Cities need leaders who bring joy to their jobs

By J.P. Romney
RECAP

What We Learned at Ideas We Should Steal Festival

The 8th annual event presented by Comcast NBCUniversal had solutions to trash, potholes, affordable housing, politics, economic development and more.

By Malcolm Burnley and Courtney DuChene
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2025

How Women’s Sports Can Grow a City

Philadelphia Sisters Co-Founder Alex Niedbalski-Sykes joins former Washington Commanders President and current Project Level Managing Director Jason Wright to talk about what the WNBA, NWSL and more women’s pro teams could do for Philly on November 14

By Courtney DuChene

Let’s Scale These Ideas

Meet the three groups that will pitch their ideas to funders and supporters at the first-ever Ideas We Should Scale Showcase at the Linc on November 13

By Jessica Blatt Press

Ideas We Should Scale Showcase

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

The Festival

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff