Topic: Ideas We Should Steal

Making Philly more accessible to college students could help keep them here after graduation

A Detroit program offers writers a (free) home of their own to bring new creative life to a dying city

In Australia, eligible residents are required by law to vote and 90 percent actually do. Imagine Philly with those turnout numbers

Independents are the fastest-growing segment of voters in Philly—so why do we keep ignoring them?

When he was in D.C., Police Commissioner Charles Ramsey formed a unit specializing in LGBTQ issues that has made the community safer, and won national plaudits. Why not in Philly?

Nikki Sylianteng got fed up with parking signs that required a law degree to comprehend. So she designed better parking signs, and cities are taking notice.

Utah is poised to eliminate the state’s homelessness problem through a simple, yet radical, approach: Give everyone on the streets a free apartment with no strings attached.

A New York plan promises to save money, reduce prison overcrowding and cut down on prison violence. Could it work in Philly?

A Colorado program reduced that state’s teen birth rate by 40 percent by providing young women with long-acting reversible birth control.