Ideas We Should Steal 2022 Recap

What We Learned at the Ideas We Should Steal Festival

Our 5th annual festival last week featured luminaries in the arts, politics, media and justice. Here, some solutions we should adopt

By Lauren McCutcheon and Roxanne Patel Shepelavy
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2022 Recap

“Tell the Truth About Who We Are”

At the opening night of last week’s festival, renowned journalists from Ali Velshi to Jill Abramson offered solutions to what plagues distrust of the media

By Jessica Blatt Press
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2022

Saving Democracy with Andrew Yang

The former presidential candidate talks with WashPo’s Jennifer Rubin, former RNC Chair Michael Steele and MSNBC’s Ali Velshi at our Ideas We Should Steal Festival Thursday

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

The Gun Violence Plan Philly Finally Needs?

The new Civic Coalition to Save Lives plan to combat gun violence is a type of problem-solving collaboration we’ve not seen before. Can it work? And can it model a new way to enact solutions?

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2022

How to Solve A Murder Epidemic

Chester has reduced gun violence by 60 percent in the last two years. We’ll learn how they did it at our 5th annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival on December 15

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy

2023 Ideas We Should Steal Festival

By The Philadelphia Citizen Staff

Great Ideas for Philly Since 2018

By Ralph Thorn
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2021 Recap

We Can Solve Problems

Nine big takeaways from The Philadelphia Citizen's fourth annual Ideas We Should Steal Festival at Fitler Club

By Jessica Blatt Press and Katherine Rapin
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2021

What Would Jimmy Do?

On our Festival eve, bestselling author Professor Eddie Glaude Jr. and Tony-winning playwright and singer/songwriter Stew will disturb some peace by sharing lessons in song and prose from the moral vision of James Baldwin

By Larry Platt
Ideas We Should Steal Festival 2021

“We Have to Fix Listening”

Berkeley professor Arlie Hochschild spent years trying to understand Trump voters. Find out what she learned about how to move forward as citizens at this year’s Ideas We Should Steal Festival

By Roxanne Patel Shepelavy